Bug#670800: [NMU] latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab: Helping to update to Copyright format 1.0

[jaalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>]

On 2012-05-11 07:43, Norbert Preining wrote:
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| All the changes you propose are cosmetic and nothing else. 

There is a motivation to help moving to the newer packaging format:

  - The E: error reported by Lintian for the use of deprecated dpatch
  - Simplicity of patching system (reducing depends, standards quilt
    interface etc.)

| Thanks for your work, and Danai *might* include your copyright
| change in one of the future versions, but this is *SOLELY* up to
| him as main maintainer of the package.

I did not notice that latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab had had recent
uploads. The information I had written down previously was that the
package's last upload was from 2009; based on this, the message about
intent to NMU was sent. It's good to see that the package is back in
maintenance.

The background is that the original developer of dpatch let go the
package and it was orphaned long time during 2009...2011 having no
maintainer at all.  It was understandable: not sensible to mantain
parallel project to quilt().
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562697>.

Dpatch is currently being overseen only due to historical reasons and
the current maintainer wishes packages to migrate away from it; hence
the Lintian (E:) error for packages that are still using it.

I hope that you consider new formats; The benefit of e.g. Copyright
Format 1.0 is to help machine processing and License auditing work.

Thank you for the comments against the patch. I'm happy to revise it
for later package versions if needed.

Jari