[WIP] contrib: Remove distribution packaging #13137

This has been moved to a separate repository, https://github.com/bitcoin-core/packaging

TODO need to find a distribution agnostic place, (somewhere under share?) for:

• assets-attribution (../contrib/debian/copyright)
• example configuration file contrib/debian/examples/bitcoin.conf

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Just did a quick search for contrib/debian, and it's still referenced and these files:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/assets-attribution.md https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/init.md https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

These should probably be updated here as well. Also, https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/Makefile.am contains a reference to contrib/rpm, not sure if that's a problem

@flack thanks, yes, those should be updated as well

I think it is much better to maintain this in the same repo, especially since the debian/ dir has things useful in general.

According to @thebluematt it's out of date half of the time anyway. If it's not kept in sync with releases there's no reason to keep it in the main repository.

especially since the debian/ dir has things useful in general.

In that case, we should make sure it's moved somewhere else.

I agree that we've salvaged generally useful parts from there before (though at least the man-pages had license issues preventing that), but for something that is useful in general, a distribution-packaging specific directory is not the place. (I've repeatedly commented this about the desktop file, also that it should be installed with make install)

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Re "assets-attribution":

We are only talking about qt stuff in ./src/qt/res and share/pixmaps/, so I think it is fine to just amend the Readme in those folders to include the copyright notices. (This way we don't have to do it a third time, when the gui is moved out of this repo)

Needs rebase and feedback addressed

See #13809