Package: dgit Version: 1.4 Severity: normal It is common for there to be material that is not known to be DFSG-free in the git commit history of Debian packages. This is true for alioth repositories, and dgit repositories.
However, for packages in main, commits with a debian/x.y.z release tag should not contain any DFSG-non-free material. This can be relied upon to the same extent that one can rely on there being only DFSG-free material in source packages retrieved from main with `apt-get source`. Essentially, the git history of a package in main has a very similar status as the contrib/non-free sections of the archive: you have to check what you are allowed to do with the material for yourself. These facts about both tagged and untagged commits in dgit-repos should be documented somewhere. I'm not sure where. Some possibilities: - in Policy, alongside the explanation of contrib & non-free (in that case, this bug should be reassigned) - in dgit(1), despite the fact that this is Debian-specific information. -- Sean Whitton
