[Openstack-devel] Comments regarding python-proboscis_1.2.6.0-1_amd64.changes

Luke W. Faraone lfaraone at debian.org
Sun Oct 20 17:11:19 UTC 2013


On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 12:46:01PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 10/20/2013 05:52 AM, Luke W. Faraone wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 01:37:37PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> >> Why would I want to do this, when the proboscis.egg-info/PKG-INFO file
> >> explicitly lists:
> > 
> > Tim is not the copyright holder of the package, his employer is.
> 
> Which is why I wrote:
> (c) 2011-2013, Rackspace (Tim Simpson)
> 
> and not:
> (c) 2011-2013, Tim Simpson (Rackspace)
> 
> Do you think that the contact email address of Tim Simpson, as well as
> his name, should go away? I'd find it weird to require to remove the
> point of contact...

As stated previously, http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/#upstream-contact-field
is the correct way to express the information. Modifying the copyright
statement to include the upstream contact is the wrong place.

Cheers,

Luke



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