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Re: /svn/athena r23357 -

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Tue Jan 27 14:05:56 2009

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:04:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
cc: debathena@mit.edu
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On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Greg Price wrote:

> There are several other Debathena-native packages where the Debian
> packaging is written as copyright Tim Abbott and Anders Kaseorg:
> broder: cupsys-config, printing-config, cupsys-hack
> MIT: dotfiles, firefox-wrapper, build-depends
> andersk: libnss-afspag
> tabbott, broder, nelhage, andersk, geofft: linerva
> tabbott, andersk, geofft: gdm-config
> tabbott, andersk, price: pam-config
>
> Are these right?  I think it may make the most sense to drop the
> "source is copyright X, packaging copyright Y" distinction for many of
> these packages, especially for config packages that consist basically
> just of Debian packaging.

Yeah, after yesterday's email, I was intending to a grep along those lines 
to look for additional instances of this problem, but it seems you beat me 
to it.

I think it makes sense to adjust the text for config packages to not 
suggest two different sets of copyright holders.

 	-Tim Abbott

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