Bug#678607: debian-policy: "original authors" in 12.5 is unclear

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Charles Plessy wrote:

> My personal opinion is that it is best to focus the Debian copyright file
> on the goal of respecting licenses and the copyright law, and to leave
> to the upstream documentation the difficult task of stating who is author
> and who is not.

Just like naming the location from which the upstream source code was
downloaded is useful, giving contact information (at least a name,
mailing list, or web forum) for the upstream maintainer is useful, no?

At least that is the rule I've followed in following this requirement
in policy.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan