[Pkg-octave-devel] debian/copyright

[Sébastien Villemot]

Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org> writes:

> I just looked at 
> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#copyright-field
>
> I think we are too explicit with our current debian/copyright. If just
> the years differ between files, they can be put into one paragraph.

It is even possible to merge in a single paragraph files with the same
license but different copyright owners.

I’m trying to use this to simplify debian/copyright files, though I
sometimes prefer to use different paragraphs when I think it makes the
debian/copyright cleaner.

-- 
Sébastien Villemot
Researcher in Economics & Debian Maintainer
http://www.dynare.org/sebastien
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