On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 18:03 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Howdy Chris, > > I'm copying this discussion to ‘debian-devel’, since I think it has > direct bearing on the recent discussions about trying to figure out > the actual requirements for the contents of the ‘copyright’ file. > > On 27-Aug-2009, Chris Lamb wrote: > > I'm rejecting your package from NEW because your debian/copyright > > doesn't contain the "Copyright (C) blah blah" text along with the > > licenses. > > This is true; the package as originally uploaded had copyright notices > preserved in the source, but not duplicated into the ‘copyright’ file. Your experience seems to be covered by http://lintian.debian.org/tags/copyright-without-copyright-notice.html and http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html (linked from http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html) -Rob
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