Hi Russ, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Right, this was the reason why I hadn't committed anything yet. We have > to decide whether we're going to prohibit arch:any -> arch:all links > completely to ensure that the binNMU changelog entries are visible. My > inclination is to do so, and hence drop this whole section and just say > that it's not allowed, but this will declare several packages in Debian > buggy. > > Now, depending on how you read Policy, they were *already* buggy, since > Policy has always required that packages ship changelog files, and those > packages are in essence not including accurate changelog files. But this > is making that very explicit. For what it's worth, I agree --- it seems best to prohibit arch:any -> arch:all links until a better solution comes around. > Is there any package out there right now that's using separated copyright > files as you describe above, without a combined copyright file that > contains all the details? Not that I know of. For simplicity, I prefer to have everything in debian/copyright. Automatically extracting the copyright file is a useful thing to be able to do. > Yup, they do. Thanks for the clarifications. Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
