Bart Martens <ba...@debian.org> writes: > The file time-1.7/time.c contains this: > "Originally written by David Keppel <pa...@cs.washington.edu>."
> So David Keppel is an "original author" as meant in debian-policy. > It is a mystery to me why you interpret debian-policy that in this case > the Free Software Foundation would be the original author. Yes, I've noticed. :) Anyway, I think I've used all the words that I have to try to explain it, and Bob is happy to add the Comment section, so the whole point is moot anyway. Contrary to the poor way I've stumbled through this conversation, I don't actually want to fight about it! Bob just seemed a bit baffled by the comment, and I also felt baffled, which is why I jumped in (also because I also am very interested in getting the updated package in Debian). I'm much less baffled now. You're correct that we have a place to debate revisions of debian-policy and it's not here, and I get involved in few enough sponsorship requests that it's unlikely our disagreement will matter again until we've hopefully resolved what the heck Policy is actually supposed to mean. > Then I guess it is OK to use the Comment section for David Keppel. Absolutely. And I'm sorry for my tone in some of my earlier messages. I had a really obnoxious week and didn't do a very good job of keeping that out of my tone. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/878vfel9z8....@windlord.stanford.edu
