Deng Xiyue <manphiz-gu...@users.alioth.debian.org> writes: > [Don't know whether this has been asked. If so, pointers are welcomed.] > > According to Debian Policy Manual section 12.5: > > 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.* > > The current DEP 5 proposal doesn't provide a standard field dedicated > for the information of original Debianizer, while the old format > generated by dh-make does. According to section 1.1, > > 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. > > So this is not strictly required, but it is considered a bug, which AIUI > needs fixing. Hence I wonder how this was and will be handled.
Removing that part from Policy would be my preference. It's duplication of information that's already in the changelog. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
