On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 01:41:34PM +0000, c.bu...@posteo.jp wrote:
> > > To my understanding of the policy the license file of package should
> > > be
> > > installed into
> > > 
> > >     /usr/share/doc/<package>/LICENSE
> > 
> > It's spelled: /usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright
> 
> To my understand the "copyright" file is something Debian specific.
> This does not exist in my upstream project but is "generated" by my Debian
> Package Maintainer.

Correct. Which is what you were asking about.

> There are several packages (e.g. "backintime-common" and "backintime-qt")
> containing LICENSE
> file and copyright file in that folder side by side.

And lintian has an extra-license-file tag for such packages.

> Just assume that my DPM does handle the copyright file by himself in an
> appropriate way.
> 
> But what about LICNESE file and a LICENSES folder for multiple licenses
> files?

What about them that wasn't answered in the email you quoted and in the
Policy?

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