Bug#885698: Bug#1135097: Bug#885698: What licenses should be included in /usr/share/common-licenses?

Marco d'Itri <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:10:26 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.policy
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On Apr 28, Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]> wrote:

>With my src:util-linux maintainer hat on, I'd welcome tooling and a 
>corresponding policy change towards copyright file deduplication.
I fully agree. My tool of choice here is dh_installdocs --link-doc.

E.g. from kmod:

override_dh_installdocs:
         dh_installdocs -pkmod -plibkmod-dev --link-doc=libkmod2
         dh_installdocs -plibkmod2

Beware: enabling this on an existing package also requires using 
dpkg-maintscript-helper (debian/*.maintscript) with dir_to_symlink.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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