Dear Bob, you can find many recent copyright files in the following subversion repository.
http://svn.debian.org/viewvc/collab-qa/packages-metadata/ Each time a binary package is uploaded, its copyright file is refreshed in this Subversion repository if the source package was itself stored in a VCS. http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata For the Machine-readable copyright format (DEP 5), ther is no field to record upsteam authors, because it is widely accepted that this is not required by the Policy, that is: the FTP team accepts new packages not doing so, and no bugs are filed against packages that are not doing so. But if you wish, you can either use the Comment field as you did, or use an extra field: The syntax of the file is the same as for other Debian control files, as specified in the Debian Policy Manual. See its section 5.1 for details. Extra fields can be added to any paragraph. No prefixing is necessary or desired, but please avoid names similar to standard ones so that mistakes are easier to catch. Future versions of the debian/copyright specification will attempt to avoid conflicting specifications for widely used extra fields. Lastly, note that your current copyright file does not have a valid syntax as spaces are not allowed in short license names. The tool 'cme' frome Dominique Dumont's excellent libconfig-model-perl package, will assist you for further syntax checking. -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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/20120623073100.gf16...@falafel.plessy.net
