On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:51:25PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Deng Xiyue <manphiz-gu...@users.alioth.debian.org> writes: > > > [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. > > Removing that part from Policy would be my preference. It's duplication > of information that's already in the changelog.
Would it merit a BTS entry against debian-policy as a reminder? Or maybe waiting for more comments, and act after consensus is reached? Regards, Deng Xiyue -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
