Do not require initial Debian maintainers be listed in copyright

[debian/debian-policy.git] / upgrading-checklist.sgml

diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
index a0f46980356505ebe93fba83a7075d3cd5628ef4..80a48108ff0d7f207ef39b0d4ed60a41aa9328d3 100644 (file)
--- a/upgrading-checklist.sgml
+++ b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
@@ -57,8 +57,13 @@ Unreleased.
   of normal rules for non-free dependencies and were largely obsolete, so
   they have been removed.
   </item>
+<tag>12.5</tag>
+  <item><file>debian/copyright</file> is no longer required to list the
+  Debian maintainers involved in the creation of the package (although
+  note that the requirement to list copyright information is unchanged).
+  </item>
 <tag>perl</tag>
-  <item> Packages may declare an interest in the <var>perl-major-upgrade</var> 
+  <item>Packages may declare an interest in the <var>perl-major-upgrade</var> 
   trigger to be notified of major upgrades of perl.
   </item>
 <tag>virtual</tag>