Bug#912581: Slightly relax the requirement to include verbatim copyright information

2018-11-01 Thread Sean Whitton
control: tag -1 +pending Hello, On Thu 01 Nov 2018 at 08:51AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I believe this matches the new ftp-master statement, and they're canonical > for this part of Policy, so seconded. Well, they set the required minimum ... we could have a project consensus to require copy

Bug#912581: Slightly relax the requirement to include verbatim copyright information

2018-11-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Sean Whitton writes: > I suspect we have wider project consensus for this minimal change, even > if others would prefer to relax the requirement further, so I'm > optimistically going ahead and seeking seconds for the following patch > (word diff was unfortunately not much better to read): I bel

Bug#912581: Slightly relax the requirement to include verbatim copyright information

2018-11-01 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 07:24:39AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > diff --git a/policy/ch-archive.rst b/policy/ch-archive.rst > index c429f71..72764a9 100644 > --- a/policy/ch-archive.rst > +++ b/policy/ch-archive.rst > @@ -183,10 +183,18 @@ In addition, the packages in *non-free* > Copyright conside

Bug#912581: Slightly relax the requirement to include verbatim copyright information

2018-11-01 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.2.1.4 Tags: patch On Tue 30 Oct 2018 at 09:34PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > 2. Additionally, it is currently required by policy: > > 2.3 Copyright considerations > > Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright > informat