Hi Nicholas, Nicholas D Steeves <s...@debian.org> writes:
> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > Xiyue Deng <manp...@gmail.com> writes: > >> With the release of the new policy version, I have done some more clean >> up to the package and update team repo and mentors. PTAL. TIA! > > Please stop making copyright assertions for other people. We've > discussed this before, and it's the actual copyright situation is what > counts and not lintian's experimental "update-debian-copyright" tag. > That tag is to remind contributors in the d/copyright file to check > whether they've done any work that meets the > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality > Acknowledged. I was trying to revert that change and saw you already did it in [1]. Thanks. Also thanks for the link. I was trying to find more explanations regarding Copyright concepts. This also explains why some DDs consider the contents under `debian/' not copyrightable because the lack of originality. Anyway, in normal case, I would think adding oneself to the copyright list of `File: debian/*' when doing any changes is acceptable as the changes reflects the intention of oneself to improve the package, even only incrementally. > You also need to explain what "Drop old version on emacs in recommends." > means, and *why* you made this change, because it's not self-evident. Clarified in [2]. > > Cheers, > Nicholas > > [[End of PGP Signed Part]] [1] https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/scala-mode-el/-/commit/5d670b9cc33f22d34d3003c6606f785f05644d36 [2] https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/scala-mode-el/-/commit/0f7d996aaf8efc4ffc36f63351045fc8e498bb68 -- Xiyue Deng
