XPost: linux.debian.policy
From: bage@debian.org
Control: tags -1 patch
Please find the patch attached.
From 5be219aae8b8352ec42e89a9ec71bbe853a33f34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bastian Germann
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 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
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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