ignoring autotool in debian/copyright?

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am 01.12.2011 10:18, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> And thinking more about it, source packages do already have proper
> copyright information in the source package, mostly in some COPYING or
> README file or in the respective sources. So legally, there is no
> necessity to collect and condense all this information in a single file
> "debian/copyright". Doing so may be a great service for people that work
> on the source packages, right, but I really don't think this is
> currently a requirement, nor should maintainers be forced to do so.

Hm, valid point. I don't believed this has not been discussed on a 
grand scale before and didn't lead to a consensus. The topic is just 
too important.