Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.1.0 Severity: wishlist Dear all,
following the discussion on debian-project, here is a small patch that clarifies ยง12.5, where it is written that copyrights must be extractable by mechanical means. See http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] for the small discussion. With the possible arrival of DEP-5 in the debian-policy package, I think that it can be good to clarify that what the Policy requires to be machine-extractable are the copyright files, not their content. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
>From 35ae4ecea9c6b26f55d7dc8fdd9ef813fb8fd259 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charles Plessy <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 23:28:21 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] What needs to be machine-extractable is the copyright file, not its contents. See: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] --- policy.sgml | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index 6e04c81..2a01b02 100644 --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -9630,8 +9630,8 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY <file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var></file> may be a symbolic link to another directory in <file>/usr/share/doc</file> only if the two packages both come from the same source and the - first package Depends on the second. These rules are - important because copyrights must be extractable by + first package Depends on the second. These rules are important + because <file>copyright</file> files must be extractable by mechanical means. </p> -- 1.7.2.3
