From fc3631b7f493806df93f3b3d200fca3e4f7b2c57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russ Allbery Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 10:56:52 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Do not require initial Debian maintainers be listed in copyright MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The documentation of debian/copyright explicitly required the initial Debian maintainers be listed in the file. That information is already in the changelog, and they may no longer hold any copyrights on the remaining files in the package. Drop that requirement, although the requirement to include copyright and license information is still in force. * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright Wording: Charles Plessy Seconded: Russ Allbery Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog Seconded: Andrew McMillan Closes: #593533 --- debian/changelog | 6 ++++++ policy.sgml | 5 ++--- upgrading-checklist.sgml | 7 ++++++- 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 6375f50..1550e6d 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ debian-policy (3.9.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low Seconded: Charles Plessy Seconded: Guillem Jover Closes: #626779 + * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright + Wording: Charles Plessy + Seconded: Russ Allbery + Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog + Seconded: Andrew McMillan + Closes: #593533 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796) diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index 16ffc0f..854fde6 100644 --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -9757,9 +9757,8 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY

In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream - sources (if any) were obtained. It should name the original - authors of the package and the Debian maintainer(s) who were - involved with its creation. + sources (if any) were obtained, and should name the original + authors.

diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml index a0f4698..80a4810 100644 --- 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. +12.5 + debian/copyright 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). + perl - Packages may declare an interest in the perl-major-upgrade + Packages may declare an interest in the perl-major-upgrade trigger to be notified of major upgrades of perl. virtual -- 2.39.2