Bug#617516: debian-policy: Clarification that what needs to be machine-extractable is the copyright file, not its contents.

[Jakub Wilk]

* Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org>, 2011-03-09, 23:42:

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>

Seconded.

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Jakub Wilk

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