ignoring autotool in debian/copyright?

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am 01.12.2011 08:20, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> Thank you very much for stating your opinion such clearly. I fully
> concur with your view on DEP-5!

While I also agree with your opinion with regard to documenting the 
licensing of auto-generated files (and most parts of the GNU auto* 
build system, FWIW) I have to disagree with your statement that code 
which does not end up in binaries does not have to get documented in 
debian/copyright.

In my understanding, said file is to document the license and 
copyright situation of the packages that Debian offers - but Debian 
does also offer the source package, it is not limited to binary 
packages! If your source ships a convenience copy of a library which 
you do not link against - which you maybe do not even compile, because 
you build against the system library - then of course the license of 
this code has to end up in debian/copyright.

  - Fabian