[Drpopping -release from CC, they are busy enough] Dirk,
> [Thomas Lumley] is not listed in DESCRIPTION He has a copyright attribution in R/read.R IIRC but there may be other instances and other copyright holders. You would make the reference(s) in debian/copyright like any other package. > > carefully about making emotional requests on -devel in future. > > I will try. And where please should I send requests to ftpmaster ? This sort of question is neither helpful nor productive I'm afraid. There is no secret contact channel that you seem to be implying; there just the simply the one that is read and processed by incredibly busy people. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-