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Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file



On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:13:39PM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote:
> On 2007-09-27 16:39 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> writes:

> > > I don't think there is any requirement to have any upstream contact
> > > information whatsoever in order to be able to distribute a package.

> > This seems to be the point of disagreement. I think this should be
> > required, in order that Debian users can have more confidence [0] in
> > the copyright status of works in Debian.

> This is your goal. It's up to you to find a way to meet it while
> respecting the wishes of the upstream authors. If you can't, the
> wishes of the upstream authors take precedence and you don't
> distribute the package. Do we agree on that ?

"You" don't distribute the package?

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