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

[Joerg Jaspert]

On 14605 March 1977, Martin Pitt wrote:
>> License: and Copyright: "various" in your debian/copyright look rather strange.

> 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 satisfy the initial NEW review, but it would inevitably get out of date.

It's a maintainers job to not let it get out of date.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?

Yes, Debian wants it in the copyright file. As that one is meant for
it - and even has special mentions on stuff like packages.debian.org
(for example). (And it's a point listed in our REJECT-FAQ)

Unlike the control file, which you must not rebuild during a package
build, we don't much care how the copyright file gets created. So do
what works for you, as long as it is the one source of truth (and, for
those folks over there, reproducible :) ).

-- 
bye, Joerg