Bug#630149: Processed: [bts-link] source package perl

Niko Tyni ntyni at debian.org
Tue Aug 23 05:40:06 UTC 2011


On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:11:17PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 04:42:18PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > Bug #630149 [perl] perlembed.pod and perlmodinstall.pod contain invariant sections
> > Added tag(s) fixed-upstream.
> 
> Hmm, I wonder whether there would be any practical purpose in applying
> this as a patch; debian/copyright will still have to apply to the
> contents of the orig.tar.tz, so I guess not.

Assuming the change applies to older releases too, we could change
debian/copyright to document the new license of the files and include
a reference to this bug explaining the discrepancy with the .orig.tar.gz.

Alternatively, we can just wait until 5.16.0 :)
-- 
Niko






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