[pkg-nvidia-devel] [patch 190xx] [7/k v2] unify debian/copyright and debian.binary/copyright

[Russ Allbery]

Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>>> Andreas Beckmann wrote:

>>>> there is no need to have two slightly different versions of the
>>>> copyright file in debian and debian.binary.

>>>> The patch merges the few remaining changes from
>>>> debian.binary/copyright into debian/copyright.in (packaging copyright
>>>> notice and initial packaging date which is further in the past) and
>>>> adjusts debian/rules to install debian/copyright into the module
>>>> source debian/ directory.

>> Thanks, this is great.  Applied.

> Eventually the packaging copyright should be updated, too, similar to
> nvidia-graphics-modules. It is still referring to GPL - was this meant
> as GPL2 or GPL2+ originally?

Good question.  I was assuming GPL-2+ because it was pointing at the
moving license symlink rather than the specific version of the GPL.  All
it said was:

"These scripts are covered under the GNU GPL, the text of the license
is available here /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL ."

We should probably ask Randall.

> The debian/copyright file which is included in the repository should be
> regenerated, to contain all the recent changes.

Unless I'm mistaken, the only reason why it's generated is to embed the
specific download links for the version packaged, correct?  That
information is already in the watch file, and it's not typical in Debian
packages to be that specific.  Generally that URL is just a pointer to the
general download page where one can find the newer version of the package
if desired.

I think we could pick a more generic URL and then stop generating the
copyright file.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>