[Debian-in-workers] Comments regarding fonts-gargi_2.0-1_amd64.changes

[Vasudev Kamath]

Heya Paul!,

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Paul Richards Tagliamonte
<ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org> wrote:
> Howdy maintainer,
>
> Your package appears to have a copyright_hints file. This
> looks like autogenerated kruft. It'd be nice to prune this
> from the upload next time.
>

Its auto generated yes but cruft no.. Its not cruft file its helper
file used by copyright_check functionality of CDBS[1][2]

Almost all CDBS packages have this file. Its useful while importing
new upstream release to see if any license changes occurred in
existing or newly introduced files.

Hope that clarifies it.

[1] http://copyninja.info/2013/02/cdbs_packaging_%3A_copyright_file_support.html
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/CDBS+git-buildpackage#Copyright_check

Best Regards
-- 

Vasudev Kamath
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