Bug#859776: rejection
On 2017-04-11 15:28, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 09:33:59AM +0200, Paride Legovini wrote:
>> [Note for whoever lands here: the package has been rejected from NEW
>> because of unattributed files in lua/lexers].
>>
>> Hello Adam,
>>
>> I didn't realize that some files in lua/lexers were not fully attributed
>> in debian/copyright. Regarding those files: there is one main author
>> (that is attributed), then many single-file contributions from about 40
>> different authors.
>
> Very few projects bother tracking attributions of specific files.
>
>> Should I list all these authors in debian/copyright, or can I do like
>> it's done for the Linux kernel:
>>
>> Files: *
>> Copyright: 1991-2012 Linus Torvalds and many others
>> License: GPL-2
>>
>> hence writing:
>>
>> Files: lua/lexers/*
>> Copyright: 2007-2016 Mitchell <mitchell@foicica.com> and many others
>> License: MIT
>
> I like this approach, it saves us a lot of work. It'd be nice to hear from
> a ftpmaster, though, to reduce the number of trips to NEW.
I asked on IRC, didn't get a definitive answer, but my feeling is that
there is a preference for giving attribution when possible. I wrote a
simple shell script that generates the copyright entries for the lexers,
the output is like this
https://clbin.com/m32Id
Some entries could be joined, but doing it automatically becomes
nontrivial, as there are some files with more than one author. I lean
towards leaving it like this. If you think it's OK I'll upload a revised
package to mentors.
Paride
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