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Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions?



Hello,

On Thu 26 Dec 2019 at 11:29am -05, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:

> One interesting thing about this is that I have often wondered if it
> would be beneficial to have checks on debian/copyright during the life
> of a package.  Checking only once when a package first enters the Debian
> archive seems to leave open the rather likely possibility that some
> change in a future upstream release changes or adds some component
> license that should be documented in debian/copyright.  I try to be
> diligent in this regard and even at times have found that I overlook
> things.

Well, this is one of the reasons why source package which add new binary
packages end up in NEW again.  The full source tree gets checked again
at that point as if the source package were completely new.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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