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Bug#859776: rejection



On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 09:33:59AM +0200, Paride Legovini wrote:
> [Note for whoever lands here: the package has been rejected from NEW
> because of unattributed files in lua/lexers].
> 
> Hello Adam,
> 
> I didn't realize that some files in lua/lexers were not fully attributed
> in debian/copyright. Regarding those files: there is one main author
> (that is attributed), then many single-file contributions from about 40
> different authors.

Very few projects bother tracking attributions of specific files.

> Should I list all these authors in debian/copyright, or can I do like
> it's done for the Linux kernel:
> 
> Files: *
> Copyright: 1991-2012 Linus Torvalds and many others
> License: GPL-2
> 
> hence writing:
> 
> Files: lua/lexers/*
> Copyright: 2007-2016 Mitchell <mitchell@foicica.com> and many others
> License: MIT

I like this approach, it saves us a lot of work.  It'd be nice to hear from
a ftpmaster, though, to reduce the number of trips to NEW.

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