Re: debian/copyright: how extensive ...

2014-03-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 10:29:31PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 13507 March 1977, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Is there any rules in place written somewhere? > > If one takes it all the way to the end, then each and every file ought > to be documented. This, however, is not realistic, especially

Re: debian/copyright: how extensive ...

2014-03-06 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 13507 March 1977, Osamu Aoki wrote: > When FTP master rejected previous upload rightfully, he had interesting > message: [...] > He was not asking to list auto-generated files with permissive licenses. [...] > (These all are autotools generated special exception ones with slightly > different w

Re: debian/copyright: how extensive ...

2014-03-06 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 12:12:10AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > There is no DEP-5 rules on what to do. For example the followings are I hasten to point out, just in case it's still unclear to anyone, that DEP-5 (now copyright-format/1.0) does not, in any way, affect what files can or can't be exclu

debian/copyright: how extensive ...

2014-03-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, While refining my debmake command and sponsoring libkkc package as my test case, I came to questions on practical aspect of debian/copyright file. How far we need to document in debian/copyright for auto-generated and what to do with files with explicit text. I want to know this to re