On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > > > Information about the initial Debian maintainers partially overlaps the > > information in debian/changelog, and the copyright statements for the > > packaging work. > > Under normal circumstances, it always duplicates information in > debian/changelog (there are some edge cases where it doesn't, but I think > they're rare). > > > diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml > > index 9037de8..e924b5a 100644 > > --- a/policy.sgml > > +++ b/policy.sgml > > @@ -9554,9 +9554,8 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY > > > > <p> > > In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream > > - sources (if any) were obtained. It should name the original > > - authors of the package and the Debian maintainer(s) who were > > - involved with its creation. > > + sources (if any) were obtained, and should name the original > > + authors. > > </p> > > > > <p> > > Seconded.
Seconded as well. For cate's concerns, I think it's reasonable to have people add copyright notice for the debian packaging in the copyright file but I don't see any reason to impose it. Most of the packaging might be non-copyrightable in many cases... Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer ◈ [Flattr=20693] Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100819085432.gc8...@rivendell
