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Re: Newbie questions: open ITP before RTS?



Hi Vincent,

> It's often the case that someone who packages something for debian
> isn't directly involved upstream or is a member of upstream's
> organization, so although he/she may choose the same license as
> upstream for debian/*, the copyright line would be entirely different.

Indeed, the upstream developers I work with are not personally
interested in packaging for Debian.

> I think that's why dh_make's default debian/copyright template has a
> separate stanza for debian/*, as well as pretty much every single
> package I've come across. I'd encourage you to explicitly add an
> additional stanza to cover debian/* even if you were upstream.

I've done that, I'll be making a new upload soon.

Cheers!

Daniel


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