Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes: > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 09:01:04PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
>> in one of the packages I mainatain, upstream left some zlib and ncurses >> static libraries for Win32 in the source tarball. Without the copy of >> the zlib and ncurses sources. >> Now I will have to add a lot of stuff to debian/copyright, make a >> “dfsg” tarball, provide a get-orig-source target in debian/rules, and >> write a README.source file to comply with the Policy, and do the >> repackaging dance at each new upstream release. This is not the way I >> have fun. > Why would you have to add anything to debian/copyright? > debian/copyright is for describing the copyright and license of things > in the package. You don't need to put information here about things > that are explicitly *not* in the package. debian/copyright is the appropriate place to put a brief description of what was removed from the upstream source tarball and why, since it's where we describe the provenance of the upstream source. But that should be short. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org