Charles Plessy wrote:

> Nevertheless, listing the original authors does not give an accurate
> information about who currently develops a program, and who to contact.

If "original" means "upstream of Debian" (i.e., "where does this code
originate from?"), then it gives exactly that.  As you might have
guessed by now, I think that until a README format or something
similar gets standardized, we should just clarify policy to require a
upstream contact in debian/copyright.  I don't think documenting who
wrote the first line of code is valuable.

Thanks,
Jonathan



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