Hi,
On Monday 28 June 2004 01:11 pm, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 07:05:54PM +0200, Frederik Dannemare wrote:
> > Regarding the debian/copyright: Should I leave the line 'This package
> > was debianized by ...' untouched? Or should this line be updated to
> > reflect new maintainership?
>
> Policy 12.5 "It should name the original authors of the package and
> the Debian maintainer(s) who were involved with its creation."
>
> I'd suggest to use something like
>
> Current Maintainer: you
>
> Originally packaged by: somebody else.
> cu andreas
I get the impression from reading [1] that you should get rid of the overly
verbose "This package was debianized..." stuff and (re)write it like this:
Copyright YYYY-YYYY Upstream Author One
YYYY Upstream Author Two
...
YYYY-YYYY Previous Maintainer (previous Debian package maintainer)
YYYY Current Maintainer (Debian package maintainer)
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/12/msg00194.html
Cheers,
nate
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