Bug#593533: debian-policy: Proposal to stop requesting to list initial Debian maintainers in debian/copyright
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>, 2011-11-29, 09:07:
> >> <p>
> >> In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream
> >>- sources (if any) were obtained. It should name the original
> >>- authors of the package and the Debian maintainer(s) who were
> >>- involved with its creation.
> >>+ sources (if any) were obtained, and should name the original
> >>+ authors.
> >> </p>
>
> Seconded. I've never understood why the initial packagers are
> special-cased.
I don't think that initial packagers should be special-cased, but the
copyright and licensing status of the packaging should be made clear
in the copyright file to the extent possible.
How to do this without making all packages instantly buggy, though, is
tricky.
Don Armstrong
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