On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 19:10 -0700, 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.
While I understand Cate's point about recognition of Debian Developers,
this is about removing the policy requirement that they be acknowledged
in this way and leaving them the choice to be acknowledged.
It seems to me that making the decision to be a decision of the
maintainer is perfectly correct.
Cheers,
Andrew.
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