[SCM] zyn packaging branch, master, updated. debian/1+git.20100609-1-4-gf53f2fa

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Alessio (and others),

On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 10:36:34PM +0000, 
alessio at users.alioth.debian.org wrote:

>    debian/copyright: Remove reference to 
>    /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD file to make lintian happy.

>-X-Comment: On Debian systems, the complete text of the BSD License
>- can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD'.

I believe above is wrong: That comment should not simply be removed, but 
replaced with a verbatim copy of the text which was formerly located 
below /usr/share/common-licenses/.


Lintian is a helper tool.  Following its suggestions is optional 
(although some "suggestions" are these days of so high certaintly that 
ftpmaster rejects uploads based on them) - following Debian Policy is 
mandatory, however - not only those parts possible to systematically 
spot using e.g. lintian!


The reason that file was removed, as I recall (and understood), was that 
too often it was not that exact file which was used in projects, but 
slight variations.


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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