On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 07:35:51PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Upstream-Contact was put into DEP-5 because it was already required
> contents in debian/copyright according to Policy, which says:
>
> Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright
> information and distribution license in the file
> /usr/share/doc/package/copyright. This file must neither be compressed
> nor be a symbolic link.
>
> In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources
> (if any) were obtained, and should name the original authors.
Upstream-Contact[0] need not be an author, copyright holder, or source for
source, so I'm confused by this logic.
[0] as described by
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
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