Deng Xiyue <manphiz-gu...@users.alioth.debian.org> writes: > 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.*
Recording in the ‘debian/copyright’ the URL where the original source was obtained makes sense. I don't see why ‘debian/copyright’ needs to “name the Debian maintainer(s) who were involved with its creation”; surely the best location for that is the already-mandatory package maintainer data on entries in ‘debian/changelog’. > The current DEP 5 proposal doesn't provide a standard field dedicated > for the information of original Debianizer (Side point: Can we please drop this awful neologism, and just refer to the process of packaging a work as “packaging”?) > According to section 1.1, [exact copy of Debian Policy §12.5 paragraph > 2] Section 1.1 of what? > 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. I think it's a bug in policy; it should not require a redundant record of historical information (the maintainers of the original versions of the Debian package) already mandated in the ‘debian/changelog’ file. -- \ “We are no more free to believe whatever we want about God than | `\ we are free to adopt unjustified beliefs about science or | _o__) history […].” —Sam Harris, _The End of Faith_, 2004 | Ben Finney
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