Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org): > As far as I'm concerned, the correct method of dealing with such a bug is to > *remove* the list of individual copyright holders and replace it with a > simple "Copyright: YYYY-YYYY $primary_contributor et al." It is not > reasonable to hold packages to a standard that says any upload of a new > upstream version requires maintainers to go digging to update > debian/copyright.
Agreed. I've witnessed a tendency over the years to dangerously raise our pickyness about copyright up to a point where "anal" is no longer an exxageration...:-). And I'm afraid this is an infortunate side effect of the formerly called "dep-5" to enforce this tendency. No offense intended at Paul, of course.
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