Andrey Rahmatullin <w...@debian.org> writes: > It's at least worth a discussion whether nitpicking at d/copyright is > really helping the package quality at all, and if it's worth it.
I see here another reason -- and an argument actually *for* Debian packaging (being different from, f.e. MacPorts or Conda): Detailed investigation of the upstream copyright, and the discussion with upstream, helps very much to improve to code quality (wrt. licensing). For my (science/astronomy) packages, it lead to quite many discussions with upstream, and finally to changes in their licensing scheme, which in turn makes it better for our community to bring our software together. I always use this as one argument when it comes to "Why should be care about Debian? Our users use something else", that packaging includes a careful review and documentation of the copyright. So, it is not just about packaging quality, but also about code quality in general. Best Ole
