Bug#593533: debian-policy: Proposal to stop requesting to list initial Debian maintainers in debian/copyright
Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
> in my experience with the new packages that I prepared, the FTP team is
> not requesting that debian/copyright mentions the name of the Debian
> maintainers who were involved in the initial packaging work. I therefore
> propose to align the Policy on the current practice, and remove the
> corresponding should requirement from §12.5 (see attached patch).
[...]
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -9554,9 +9554,8 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
>
> <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>
Rather than let the best be the enemy of the good here, I've gone ahead
and applied this patch. The remaining concerns about letting people know
that documenting Debian package maintainer copyrights is a good idea can
be discussed as part of the more general copyright bugs we have open, such
as #476810.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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