Bug#1120935: debian-policy: Remove /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD reference

Bastian Germann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.policy
Message-ID <aYzX0IWcgAs29ImZ__29869.3493286677$1770838169$gmane$org@duagon-BXN3S64.localdomain>
Control: tags -1 patch

Please find the patch attached.
0001-Disallow-referencing-usr-share-common-licenses-BSD.patch (text/x-diff, 1.9 KB)
>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
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