[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#904589: Bug#904589: rawtran: Please split out debian/copyright

[Ole Streicher]

Hi Chris,

On 25.07.2018 14:19, Chris Lamb wrote:
> I just ACCEPTed rawtran from NEW but was wondering if you could split
> out the "Files" paragraph in debian/copyright:
> 
>   6 Files: *
>   7 Copyright: (c) 2008-2018 Filip Hroch
>   8   (Debian files)
> 
> .. is better written as:
> 
>  Files: *
>  Copyright: (c) 2008-2018 Filip Hroch <hroch at physics.muni.cz>
>  License: GPL-3
> 
>  Files: debian/*
>  Copyright: (c) 2016,2018 Filip Hroch <hroch at physics.muni.cz>
>  License: GPL-3
> 
>  License: GPL-3
>  [etc]

I still fail to understand the rationale: DEP-5 (5.2.1) allows to
combine the copyrights for the same license in one paragraphs:

| Whether to combine paragraphs with the same grant of license is left
| to the discretion of the author of the debian/copyright file.

What would be the advantage to split the paragraph? It just makes the
file longer. Being able to automatically derive exactly the copyright
holder of debian/* (or any other file) is obviously not the scope of
d/copyright.

Best regards

Ole