[ovs-dev] Debian: Add Joe Perches to debian/copyright

[Simon Horman]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 10:02:22AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 10:51:11AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >> On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 01:14:57PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:44:37AM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> >> > I checked the policy manual and the requirements seem to be that
> >> > a) /usr/share/doc/package/copyright exists in each binary package and
> >> > b)  debian/copyright exists in the source package
> >> >
> >> > [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile
> >> >
> >> > In order to satisfy b) I think that it would be desirable
> >> > for debian/copyright to exist in the distribution tarball.
> >> >
> >> > It might be easiest to teach configure how to convert copyright.in
> >> > into copyright, but I'm not entirely sure how to do that.
> >> > So instead I handled things using automake.
> >>
> >> That seems more complicated than necessary.  Why the extra level of
> >> $(MAKE)?  And why not just add $(srcdir)/debian/copyright as a target?
> >> It seems to work fine here.  Passes "make distcheck".
> >
> > Thanks, that looks good to me.
> >
> > Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>
> 
> Thank you for looking this over, I pushed it out.
> 
> Oops, I forgot to add your Acked-by: to the commit message.
> Sorry about that.

No problem. Thanks for undoing my overly-complex-automake-foo :-)