On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:16:29 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > ... how this policy is compatible with the observed fact of > a dearth of such all-copyright-notices duplication in the actual Debian > packages.
I seems you are looking at other packages than me; I know quite a few which follow the ftp-masters' interpration of policy. > So the situation we end up with is that there are two contradictory > “existing practices” to document in Debian policy: the actual practice > embodied in Debian packages, and the actual policy expressed by > ftpmasters. Ehrm, just because we have incomplete debian/copyright files doesn't mean there's a consensus or an accepted practice that they are correct. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG Key IDs: 0x00F3CFE4, 0x8649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- BOFH excuse #315: The recent proliferation of Nuclear Testing
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