[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] cockpit_131-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Thorsten,

Thorsten Alteholz [2017-03-08 20:00 +0000]:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> License: and Copyright: "various" in your debian/copyright look rather strange.

As it says:

| Files: dist/* bower_components/*
| Copyright: various
| License: various
|  Cockpit uses various javascript dependencies at runtime in the browser
|  such as jQuery, React, or term.js. These dependencies are built into Cockpit
|  during the build process, via Bower.
|  .
|  Please see COPYING.bower in the source tree or
|  /usr/share/doc/cockpit-system/COPYING.bower in the installed system for
|  details about copyrights and licenses for each component.

I thought it would be better to refer to the autogenerated COPYING.bower file
which will stay up to date, rather than doing an one-time snapshot to formally
satisfy the initial NEW review, but it would inevitably get out of date.

So I'm looking for advice from you: would you rather have an inline copy of
COPYING.bower? Is it acceptable/preferrable to generate this during package
build from COPYING.bower with some seddery, or would you rather have a static
snapshot in the source?

Thanks,

Martin