[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#721104: Bug#721104: Please document ctdb's copyright properly

[Steve Langasek]

Control: tags -1 moreinfo

Hi Paul,

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 08:43:33PM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
> Package: ctdb
> Severity: serious
> User: paultag at debian.org
> Usertags: ftp
> X-Debbugs-CC: ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org

> During routine processing of NEW, one of the ftp trainees found the
> following issues with your copyright file:

>     version of debian/copyright is from about 2008. New contributors are missing:

<snip>

> Please get this addressed in your next upload.

Please explain the justification for filing this as a 'serious' bug.  It is
not a violation of the license of the work; it is not unambiguously a
violation of Policy 2.3 ("copyright information" does not stipulate which
information must be included); and it is not realistic to enforce a standard
for debian/copyright different from the one understood by developers in
general only during NEW processing.

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.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 836 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-samba-maint/attachments/20130827/b224d4db/attachment.sig>