Bug#1111126: Policy change and technical adjustments

Hello Russ,

Am 17.05.2026 19:05 schrieb Russ Allbery:
> [email protected] writes:
>> It is not that easy. A stanza in the d/copyright file is build from a
>> license plus copyright information. If two files share the same 
>> license
>> but have different copyright (author) information "spdx2debian" would
>> create two different stanzas for them.
> 
> I would not do that either, again because it undermines readability. 
> Just
> collect all the copyright notices for the same license into a single
> stanza as is explicitly allowed by section 6.8 of the copyright-format
> standard.

That is fine. In this case "spdx2debian" is not the appropriate tool for 
your
workflow or packages. It does not try to solve or serve everything, only
SPDX/REUSE compliant projects. And when it comes to SPDX it is immanent
in that standard to distinguish authors/copyright the way I described.

 From a perspective as an author I wouldn't like to get my name on a file
which I have not authored.

Again I wonder if section 6.8 was approved by a lawyer anyday?