Add explanation of why videolink is in the contrib section

This should bring the package into compliance with policy version
3.8.0.

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 3094f0c2ab19ae2abd4e84a11f4cbc571b10c0ba..54d411b321eb972f675d83c76a99934028ee7f3f 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ videolink (1.2.6-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * New upstream version
     - Remove unnecessary build-dependency on libboost-dev
   * Change recommendation of mkisofs to genisoimage
+  * Update standards version to 3.8.0
+    - Add a note to debian/copyright that this package is not part
+      of the Debian system due to external dependencies
 
  -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>  Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:28:21 +0000
 

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index b0d904e5fbc728a9ea12aaedb0b56e6a3d11a485..549abe7eaac47ac915178f3964933ad583d64025 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Maintainer: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
 Section: contrib/graphics
 Priority: extra
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>=4), libgtkmm-2.4-dev, xulrunner-dev, libexpat1-dev
-Standards-Version: 3.7.2
+Standards-Version: 3.8.0
 Vcs-Browser: http://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb?p=videolink.git
 Vcs-Git: http://git.decadent.org.uk/git/videolink.git
 

diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index 45ccf089f1da6ac29cdf37143534fa251356f9e5..5b72bbfc475da4eeb0a2be087f24ed00cea68e0e 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-This is the Debian-packaged version of VideoLink.
+This is the Debian-packaged version of VideoLink.  It is not part of
+the Debian system itself because it requires an MPEG-2 video encoder
+and Debian cannot distribute these due to patent threats.
 
 Copyright 2005, 2006 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>.