[Don't know whether this has been asked. If so, pointers are welcomed.] According to Debian Policy Manual section 12.5:
In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources
(if any) were obtained. *It should name the original authors of the
package and the Debian maintainer(s) who were involved with its
creation.*
The current DEP 5 proposal doesn't provide a standard field dedicated
for the information of original Debianizer, while the old format
generated by dh-make does. According to section 1.1,
In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources
(if any) were obtained. It should name the original authors of the
package and the Debian maintainer(s) who were involved with its
creation.
So this is not strictly required, but it is considered a bug, which AIUI
needs fixing. Hence I wonder how this was and will be handled.
Regards,
Deng Xiyue
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