Steve Langasek <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 05:36:34PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: >> Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes:
>>> I'm also proposing changing the requirement for debian/copyright from >>> a should to a must. I believe that reflects existing practice. A >>> package that has no debian/copyright file is not going to make it into >>> the archive now. >> Is this actually true? e.g. libxcb does 'cat debian/copyright.debian >> COPYING > debian/copyright' at build time, and that's never been an >> issue for NEW processing afaik... > This is one of the lintian checks that is now enforced by dak, AIUI. I don't think Lintian ever looks at debian/copyright in the source package. The copyright checks in Lintian are all performed against the binary package. If ftp-master doesn't care, then Policy shouldn't care. Copying ftp-master for an opinion. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

