Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference
Bastian Germann <[email protected]>
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Control: tags -1 patch Please find the patch attached.
0001-Disallow-referencing-usr-share-common-licenses-BSD.patch
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>From 5be219aae8b8352ec42e89a9ec71bbe853a33f34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bastian Germann <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:22:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Disallow referencing /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD All references in the archive's copyright files were removed. Closes: #1120935 --- debian/changelog | 1 + policy/ch-docs.rst | 5 ++--- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 945b77b..2407c9c 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ debian-policy (4.7.3.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium * Avoid a double negative when describing the restriction on network access during the build. Thanks to Niels Thyker and Bill Allombert for suggested wording. (Closes: #1092762) + * Disallow referencing /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD. (Closes: #1120935) -- Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Sat, 07 Feb 2026 10:03:39 -0800 diff --git a/policy/ch-docs.rst b/policy/ch-docs.rst index 6167342..815a941 100644 --- a/policy/ch-docs.rst +++ b/policy/ch-docs.rst @@ -378,12 +378,11 @@ please see :ref:`s-dpkgchangelog`. ``/usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL-1.3``, ``/usr/share/common-licenses/MPL-1.1``, and ``/usr/share/common-licenses/MPL-2.0`` respectively. The University - of California BSD license is also included in base-files as + of California BSD license used to be included in base-files as ``/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD``, but given the brevity of this license, its specificity to code whose copyright is held by the Regents of the University of California, and the frequency of minor - wording changes, its text should be included in the copyright file - rather than referencing this file. + wording changes, its text has included in the copyright file. .. [#] Rationale: People should not have to look in places for upstream