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

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at 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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