Package: debian-policy Version: 4.7.3.0 Tags: patch Hi! I noticed this when working on the 'tarsnap' non-free package. I read in section '12.5 Copyright information' available at
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile the following paragraph: Packages in the contrib or non-free archive areas should state in the copyright file that the package is not part of the Debian distribution and briefly explain why. I assume that absence of reference to non-free-firmware is an oversight, because this was written before non-free-firmware existed. A simple patch to improve policy/ch-docs.rst would be: -Packages in the *contrib* or *non-free* archive areas should state in -the copyright file that the package is not part of the Debian -distribution and briefly explain why. +Packages in the *contrib*, *non-free* or *non-free-firmware* archive +areas should state in the copyright file that the package is not part +of the Debian distribution and briefly explain why. However the repetition of various archive areas makes for a hard read, and maybe the actual point is to say !main, so for readability I would suggest this instead: -Packages in the *contrib* or *non-free* archive areas should state in -the copyright file that the package is not part of the Debian -distribution and briefly explain why. +Packages not in the *main* archive area should state in the copyright +file that the package is not part of the Debian distribution and +briefly explain why. Thanks, /Simon
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