On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 09:59:13PM -0500, jereme wrote: > You can check the file: > > /usr/share/doc/package/copyright > > Debian policy say that this file has to exist for all official debs. > > also: > > "In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources > (if any) were obtained. It should name the original authors of the > package and the Debian maintainer(s) who were involved with its > creation." > > So my thought is, if the file doesn't exists, you know you didn't get > the package from Debian, (it would register as a bug). And if it > *does* exist, it will provide you enough info to determine if it came > from the Debian achive or from an external source.
That's unlikely to help, really. External packages tend to have debian/copyright anyway, and if they were based on a real Debian package it's pretty rare that anyone would bother to change the copyright file to indicate that it's not part of the Debian archive any more. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
