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--- Begin Message ---Package: debian-policy Severity: normal Policy 12.5 says: In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources (if any) were obtained, and should name the original authors. The last part is not at all clear. Prior to a recent conversation on debian-mentors, I had always assumed that this meant the legal authors, so for GNU software saying that it was maintained by the Free Software Foundation satisfied what this was asking for. Similarly for UCAID for the Shibboleth software. But discussion makes clear that other people were interpreting this as a requirement to name the specific people involved in development (something that is often documented in a separate AUTHORS or THANKS or CREDITS file, and sometimes isn't documented at all). Similarly, "original" is ambiguous. I had always assumed that meant "upstream," as in the current upstream maintainer, since it was paired with the upstream location. Those are the "original" authors from the perspective of Debian, as opposed to the authors of the Debian package. But other people interpret this as saying that debian/copyright needs to name the original upstream authors, as in the first people to start doing development on this source base. I don't really see the point in that unless we're going to list *all* the authors, given that it's often the case that the people making the first commits have done only a small amount of the total work on the package. If we do decide that this means that we need to list the specific people involved in upstream development, we should also add a new field to the copyright-format standard for that, since there isn't one at present. We should also say something about how much archeology we expect package maintainers to do if upstream doesn't document this. Note that a lot of FSF software currently packaged in the archive follows my interpretation and would become buggy under a different interpretation. See, for example, the copyright files for gawk, bash, coreutils (well, it has a reference to a separate file), or bc. (Other maintainers have had different interpretations; see the copyright file for gnutls for one that includes all the upstream authorship information.) -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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--- Begin Message ---Source: debian-policy Source-Version: 4.0.1.0 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of debian-policy, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [email protected], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Sean Whitton <[email protected]> (supplier of updated debian-policy package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 21:47:47 -0400 Source: debian-policy Binary: debian-policy Architecture: all source Version: 4.0.1.0 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Policy List <[email protected]> Changed-By: Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Closes: 196367 485776 589671 640263 660249 678607 758124 758234 759260 822430 835520 839172 849851 849853 866192 867308 Description: debian-policy - Debian Policy Manual and related documents Changes: debian-policy (4.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium . [ Russ Allbery ] * Policy: Overhaul priorities, deprecate extra Wording: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Seconded: Niels Thykier <[email protected]> Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <[email protected]> Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <[email protected]> Closes: #758234, #759260, #660249, #196367 * Policy: Clarify prohibition on depending on environment variables Wording: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Seconded: Simon McVittie <[email protected]> Seconded: Niels Thykier <[email protected]> Closes: #640263 . [ Sean Whitton ] * Policy: Disambiguate "original authors" in 12.5 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]> Seconded: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Seconded: David Bremner <[email protected]> Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> Closes: #678607 * Policy: Document Testsuite: field Wording: Charles Plessy <[email protected]> Seconded: Antonio Terceiro <[email protected]> Seconded: Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Seconded: David Bremner <[email protected]> Closes: #758124 * Policy: Require calling ldconfig by means of triggers Wording: Niels Thykier <[email protected]> Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <[email protected]> Seconded: Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Seconded: David Bremner <[email protected]> Closes: #822430 * Policy: Make section 9 agnostic between Debian's init systems Wording: Andreas Henriksson <[email protected]> Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <[email protected]> Seconded: Martin Pitt <[email protected]> Seconded: Holger Levsen <[email protected]> Seconded: gregor herrmann <[email protected]> Seconded: Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Seconded: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Closes: #835520 * Policy: Packages may not install both a desktop entry and a menu entry Wording: Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Seconded: Philip Hands <[email protected]> Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <[email protected]> Seconded: David Bremner <[email protected]> Closes: #839172 * Convert Process.md to an appendix to Policy itself. - Update link in "Authors and Maintainers" to point to this new appendix (Closes: #866192). * Incorporate Margarita Manterola's maintscript flowcharts as a new appendix (Closes: #485776). Many thanks to David Bremner for help importing the images to docbook. - Add a footnote to 6.6 linking to the new appendix. * Update first paragraph of Appendix A to note that the final three appendices (the policy changes process and the upgrading checklist) were not taken from the Packaging Manual. * Add a footnote linking to the REJECT-FAQ (Closes: #849853). * Note that the debian/rules clean target is useless for removing files not compatible with the DFSG (Closes: #849851). * Add 'javascript', 'rust' archive sections (Closes: #867308). * Drop remark that systems with only required packages installed are "probably unusable", and add a paragraph break. (Closes: #589671). 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