Dear Maintainer,

there seems to be no file debian/copyright in your package.
According to Debian policy 12.5 [1]:
   A copy of the file which will be installed in
   /usr/share/doc/package/copyright should be in
   debian/copyright in the source package.
It is not sufficient to create such a copyright file while
building the binary package.

Thanks!
   Thorsten

[1]https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html

Control: tags -1 moreinfo

That's only a source package ...

I'm pretty sure piuparts and adequate would have caught this ...

Or did you try some "interesting" upgrade path?


Andreas

PS: I didn't look at any of the other recent bugs with the same title

Hi Andreas,

yes, according to policy the copyright file should be in the source
package as well. As stated in 1.1, all things that do not comply to a
"should"-clause are a bug.
Nevertheless, the severity might not be appropriate.

At least lintian gives a warning.

Hmm, what do you mean by "upgrade path"?

    Thorsten

Control: tag -1 -moreinfo

Having found and filed quite some copyright related bugs in *binary*
packages I didn't realize that you actually meant the source package.

(binary) packages tend to lose /usr/share/doc/$PKG/copyright e.g. on
upgrades involving improperly done symlink2dir/dir2tosymlink switches.


Andreas

Just for the record, the debian/rules file generate debian/copyright like this during build:

  cat debian/copyright.header COPYING > debian/copyright

Once the file is converted to a machine readable copyright file, I
guess this build rule will have to be dropped and this issue
considered fixed.