On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 09:33:59AM +0200, Paride Legovini wrote: > [Note for whoever lands here: the package has been rejected from NEW > because of unattributed files in lua/lexers]. > > Hello Adam, > > I didn't realize that some files in lua/lexers were not fully attributed > in debian/copyright. Regarding those files: there is one main author > (that is attributed), then many single-file contributions from about 40 > different authors.
Very few projects bother tracking attributions of specific files. > Should I list all these authors in debian/copyright, or can I do like > it's done for the Linux kernel: > > Files: * > Copyright: 1991-2012 Linus Torvalds and many others > License: GPL-2 > > hence writing: > > Files: lua/lexers/* > Copyright: 2007-2016 Mitchell <mitch...@foicica.com> and many others > License: MIT I like this approach, it saves us a lot of work. It'd be nice to hear from a ftpmaster, though, to reduce the number of trips to NEW. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Meow! ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Collisions shmolisions, let's see them find a collision or second ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ preimage for double rot13!
