Bug#561494: Fwd: devref and policy should agree on where to document tarball repacking

2009-12-18 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Sorry, my answer went to submit instead of the right bug. Copy sent again to d-devel to allow answers to go to the bug report. Début du message réexpédié : Réenvoyé-De : debian-de...@lists.debian.org De : Thibaut Paumard mlotpot.n...@free.fr Date : 18 décembre 2009 14:17:09 HNEC À : Debian

Bug#561494: Fwd: devref and policy should agree on where to document tarball repacking

2009-12-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Thibaut Paumard mlotpot.n...@free.fr writes: 2) most free licenses require to clearly specify modifications to licensed work. Deleting files is to be considered a modification of the source package, which _is_ the licensed work. By the same token, I am starting to realise that we should also

Bug#561494: Fwd: devref and policy should agree on where to document tarball repacking

2009-12-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 02:37:49PM +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: I have a slight, but not overwhelming, preference for having this in README.source rather than in debian/copyright; Hi, I believe this belongs in copyright. This is based on two considerations: 1) debian/copyright is (should be)