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Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file



On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:01:45 +0200 (CEST), "Thijs Kinkhorst" wrote:

> On Wed, September 19, 2007 07:42, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> > Recently, perhaps mainly due to so many spams, it looks common
> > to write email address like "foo at some.where" etc. and I wonder if it is
> > acceptable to use such modified email address in Upstream Author field of
> > debian/copyright file.
> >
> > I come to think this because when I updated one of my packages
> > I noticed that an upstream author used such modified email address
> > in its source files.
> 
> You could debate the usefulness of that technique, but if the author
> prefers to do it that way, I see no reason why we should be deliberately
> changing that. If it's clear to a human what email address is meant, just
> follow upstream's prefered notation I'd say.

I see, thanks for your advice.

Regards,			2007-9-19(Wed)

-- 
 Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda AT debian.org>
 Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima



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