Bug#1140526: link in §2.2.1 to REJECT-FAQ is broken

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On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 09:59:05AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>=C2=A72.2.1 refers to REJECT-FAQ as the URI
>https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html but that link is broken.

(this link is in a footnote)

>Raising severity since Debian Policy seemingly at no place explicitly
>state that source packages must contain the source code that upstream
>prefer for their modification (as opposed to intermediate autogenerated
>data). Seemingly that requirement is deferred to that external URI
>which is now missing (probably since the split of the DFSG team).

Footnotes can't defer anything: "The footnotes present in this manual are=
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merely informative, and are not part of Debian policy itself." (=C2=A71.1)

Either the Policy should have specific DFSG interpretations explicitly,=20
whether "the project=E2=80=99s current working interpretation of the DFSG" =
as a=20
separate document exists or not, in which case it should be a separate bug=
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report, or it shouldn't, in which case the only bug report needed is to=20
fix/remove the footnote.

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WBR, wRAR

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