Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Paul,
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 08:43:33PM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
> Package: ctdb
> Severity: serious
> User: paul...@debian.org
> Usertags: ftp
> X-Debbugs-CC: ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org
> During routine processing of NEW, one of the ftp trainees found the
> following issues with your copyright file:
> version of debian/copyright is from about 2008. New contributors are
> missing:
<snip>
> Please get this addressed in your next upload.
Please explain the justification for filing this as a 'serious' bug. It is
not a violation of the license of the work; it is not unambiguously a
violation of Policy 2.3 ("copyright information" does not stipulate which
information must be included); and it is not realistic to enforce a standard
for debian/copyright different from the one understood by developers in
general only during NEW processing.
As far as I'm concerned, the correct method of dealing with such a bug is to
*remove* the list of individual copyright holders and replace it with a
simple "Copyright: YYYY-YYYY $primary_contributor et al." It is not
reasonable to hold packages to a standard that says any upload of a new
upstream version requires maintainers to go digging to update
debian/copyright.
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