Bug#25622: dh-make: the copyright template should have an entry for the upstream author (fwd)
OK, without this turning into a major bunfight, what can I do here?
Martin said:
> could you please insert a placeholder for the upstream author into the
> copyright template?
> I recently went through the templates rather quick and forgot to enter
> the upstream author's name. He was quite upset about this and he has
> all rights to be upset as this is bad behaviour and I didn't fulfil
> the Policy as well.
> Hopefully this field can prevent such cases in the future.
> When the field has been added, the lintian check has to be extended to
> check for it as well.
I was thinking of changing the dh-amke copyright file so that it followed
section 5.6 of the Debian policy.
"In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources
(if any) were obtained, and explain briefly what modifications were
made in the Debian version of the package compared to the upstream one.
It must name the original authors of the package and the Debian
maintainer(s) who were involved with its creation."
So I would say that means, for dh-make to comply, that the template file
should have a
It was downloaded from ....
Modifications: ....
Upstream Authors: ...
Debian maintainer: ...
I'll leave the question about lintian alone.
- Craig
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