On 17:27 Mon 08 Jun , Ben Finney wrote: > 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’.
Agreed. debian/control already list the names of maintainer and uploaders. debian/changelog entries tell us who was involved and who did the first uploads. So I see no needs in having the debian maintainer(s) name who were involved in the creation in debian/copyright too. It's an information duplication. Greetings, -- ,''`. Xavier Oswald <xosw...@debian.org> : :' : GNU/LINUX Debian Developer `. `' GnuPG Key ID 0x88BBB51E `- 938D D715 6915 8860 9679 4A0C A430 C6AA 88BB B51E
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