Hello,
On Sat 16 Nov 2019 at 04:13AM +01, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Sat, 2019-11-09 at 08:55:23 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> On Thu 07 Nov 2019 at 09:00AM -08, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> > I'm in favor of dropping this information from debian/copyright and
>> > instead writing some language saying
On Sat, 2019-11-09 at 08:55:23 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Thu 07 Nov 2019 at 09:00AM -08, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > I'm in favor of dropping this information from debian/copyright and
> > instead writing some language saying that packages should include this
> > information in Homepage in
Hello,
On Thu 07 Nov 2019 at 09:00AM -08, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I'm in favor of dropping this information from debian/copyright and
> instead writing some language saying that packages should include this
> information in Homepage in debian/control and, if there's a substantial
> non-obvious
On Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:00:29 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > IMO, ideally the requirement in policy would be lifted by clarifying
> > that the information should be provided in *either* debian/copyright
> > or debian/watch.
>
> Personally, I usually find they're not the same thing. debian/watch
On Thu, 2019-11-07 at 09:00:29 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Guillem Jover writes:
> > This means that when using a debian/watch file one has to duplicate
> > the information in two places, with the possibility of this getting
> > out-of-sync, etc.
>
> > In addition the machine readable
Guillem Jover writes:
> This means that when using a debian/watch file one has to duplicate
> the information in two places, with the possibility of this getting
> out-of-sync, etc.
> In addition the machine readable debian/copyright format, specifies
> the Source field as optional, which could
Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.4.1.1
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
We currently require (with a must) in section ยง12.5, to add to the
debian/copyright, where the upstream source was obtained from:
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In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources
(if any) were obtained,
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