On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:12:51AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > this use was my intent in 2008 when I added this field, following the release > of version 3.8.0.0 of our Policy, that closed bug #65577 asking that > “copyright > should include notice if a package is not a part of Debian distribution”. > > https://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat?action=diff&rev1=183&rev2=184
Oh, I see, thanks for the historical memory, and thanks also to Russ and Lars for their useful answers. > I do not remember if I wanted the Disclaimer field to be exclusively > used for statements that packages are not part of the Debian > distribution. In any case, a quick inspection of the Debian copyright > files in the “packages-metadata” repository show that the field is > also being used for other purposes. Looks like those low-severity bug reports would be appropriate for those packages. FWIW, to increase awareness of this field, I've now reported #742787 against lintian, patches welcome! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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