Re: Goals of debian/copyright

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:

> I just don't like the argument that we should provide
> debian/copyright information because the maintainer has to check it
> all anyway. :)

Sure. That wasn't presented as justification for doing it; merely to
pre-empt the distressingly common assertion that it's somehow too high
a burden to ask of the package maintainer.

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