Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright files (12.5)

Wording:  Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
Closes: #617516

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index e30b590c6b5e92238b776aab188c97d59164df7d..4de31e510560e362a931d624da5460bd1277407b 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -30,8 +30,13 @@ debian-policy (3.9.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     Closes: #623050
   * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
     Patch by Charles Plessy.  Closes: #628540
+  * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright files (12.5)
+    Wording:  Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
+    Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
+    Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
+    Closes: #617516
 
- -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>  Mon, 30 May 2011 15:42:21 +0200
+ -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>  Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:51:39 +0200
 
 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
 

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 6efdef4b2aab68903d199687313e6179686f5bba..bb424ed456a8c602859128e1972c51d59ca35676 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -9765,8 +9765,8 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
          <file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var></file> may be a symbolic
          link to another directory in <file>/usr/share/doc</file> only if
          the two packages both come from the same source and the
-         first package Depends on the second.  These rules are
-         important because copyrights must be extractable by
+         first package Depends on the second.  These rules are important
+         because <file>copyright</file> files must be extractable by
          mechanical means.
        </p>