[Debian-med-packaging] How to specify files not in source package in d/copyright (Was: liblemon_1.3.1+dfsg-1_amd64.changes REJECTED)

[Julien Cristau]

On Sat, Aug  6, 2016 at 23:37:03 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 05:00:09PM +0000, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
> > as you somehow add jquery.js to your doc-package, please add its license 
> > to your debian/copyright.
> 
> The jquery.js is installed by doxygen in the documentation process.  It
> does not belong to the source package (the full autogenerated
> documentation provided by upstream was intentionally removed to avoid
> compressed JS files).  I wonder why I should add licenses of files that
> are not part of the source package and do not even have an idea how I
> could do this syntactically correctly - lintian would claim an unused
> copyright paragraph and IMHO lintian is correct here.
> 
I don't think you should.  I believe Thorsten is overreaching in asking
you to do that.

Cheers,
Julien