On 12/19/2017 02:01 AM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> wrote: >> On 12/07/2017 05:57 AM, Steve Robbins wrote: >>> So: if I changed the boost copyright file to say "Copyright: $Dates Boost >>> authors", would it pass ftp-master scrutiny? >> >> No, I don't think so. >> >> I'm not sure what the FTP master logic is, but for me, the kernel is so >> much a high profile package, that it doesn't mater much, as we all know >> it is free software, and authors can be easily identified. It cannot be >> said the same thing about everything within Debian. Probably that's the >> FTP master reasoning: they don't need to check so much for the Linux >> kernel as they do for other less known piece of software. > > Are you saying that Boost isn't well-known?
I'm saying it cannot be compared to the Linux kernel. > I was forced to spend a > few hours doing a thorough copyright file earlier this year for > mozjs52 which is simply the JavaScript engine from Firefox 52 ESR. Everyone who did major contribution to Debian had to do such a boring work at some point. It's boring, annoying, frustrating, etc... but necessary, unfortunately. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
