Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes: > Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> writes: > >> 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. > > This looks good to me. Seconded. Thank you for catching that oversight!
Great. I would have opened a merge request on Salsa if they weren't disabled, but below is a git format-patch variant if that helps. /Simon
From 47998e478d991d7ecd74848b1caaeddf097c52fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2026 18:48:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify that non-free-firmware is not part of the Debian distribution The earlier text only mentioned contrib and non-free, and presumably updating this paragraph was forgotten when non-free-firmware was added. --- policy/ch-docs.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/policy/ch-docs.rst b/policy/ch-docs.rst index 6167342..b711860 100644 --- a/policy/ch-docs.rst +++ b/policy/ch-docs.rst @@ -205,9 +205,9 @@ organization, an email address, a web forum or bugtracker, or any other means to unambiguously identify who to contact to participate in the development of the upstream source code. -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. A copy of the file which will be installed in ``/usr/share/doc/PACKAGE/copyright`` should be in ``debian/copyright`` -- 2.52.0
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