On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:21:09PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Hi Bob, > > I've reviewed the latest version of your packaging, and I'd be happy to > upload it. Thank you very much for all the work that you've put into the > package. Unwinding all the of the patches into quilt format in particular > is quite impressive (and I suspect will make it easier for other > distributions or an eventual new GNU maintainer). > > Bart and Sandro, I don't want to jump in if you would like to be the > sponsor and don't want to step on other people. If you're okay with me > sponsoring this package going forward, though, I'm happy to do so.
It is OK for me that you sponsor this package. > > Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> writes: > > Bart Martens wrote: > > >> The file debian/copyright "should name the original authors", and > >> David Keppel is such an author. > > > Thank you for taking the time to look at the copyright file in detail. > > I admit the new DEP5 format confuses me. I need to find some actual > > examples in the field of more than the very simple examples listed in > > the documentation. I am working from this document: > > > http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ > > You should instead use: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ > > not that this would resolve your question, since there isn't anywhere in > the format to record authors who do not hold copyright. Then this copyright format is not suitable for writing debian/copyright files that fully conform to debian-policy. > As mentioned in > my other message, I don't think this is really the purpose of the > debian/copyright file. Debian-policy is clear on the purpose of debian/copyright. It states "should name the original authors". > What you have now seems fine to me. Not to current debian-policy. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120623071820.gc32...@master.debian.org
