Hi All; Liw suggested I direct this comment on DEP5 to this list.
In the appendix of the DEP5 candidate, it is written: ,---- | The Debian Policy (ยง12.5) demands that each package is accompanied by a | file, debian/copyright in source packages and | /usr/share/doc/package/copyright in binary packages, that contains a | verbatim copy of its copyright and distribution license. In addition, it | requires that copyrights must be extractable by mechanical means. `---- In the context of DEP-5, I read that last sentence as suggesting that machine interpretable copyright files are mandated by policy. I would suggest s/copyrights/copyright files/ to prevent others being confused by this. Probably something similar should be done to policy 12.5, where the wording was borrowed from, since "copyrights" alone is ambigious there as well. d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87r5aha46g.fsf@zancas.localnet
