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

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Bart Martens wrote:

> Some readers may argue that an "upstream contact" may not be an "author" if
> he/she maintains the upstream software only by accepting patches created by
> others.

If so, won't that be a problem everywhere else in policy that refers
to upstream authors?  For example in section 4.3:

	If changes to the source code are made that are not
	specific to the needs of the Debian system, they should be
	sent to the upstream authors in whatever form they prefer
	so as to be included in the upstream version of the
	package.

And in section 10.1:

						     Feel free to override
	the upstream author's ideas about which compilation
	options are best: they are often inappropriate for our
	environment.

If the notion of an author of a compilation who didn't write any of
the individual parts is considered too subtle, these could be
changed to 'upstream maintainer' without changing the meaning.