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Looking at [1], it states:
Similarly, plain text files which include their own copyright information and are installed into
the binary package unmodified need not have that copyright information copied into
/usr/
So in principle it's ok to drop the specific entry for the kernelrt.py plugin.
The debian/* entry I don't know, I see many packages have an entry like that, while others don't. The files in debian/* themselves don't have any copyright note on them, and not all are part of the final binary installation. On the other hand, removing this stanza from d/copyright means we also lose the information on who did the original packaging.
But another change is removing GPL-2+ for "Files: *". I'm not sure it was even correct before, as the LICENSE file in the source tree is clearly just "GPL-2" (no +). So we would have to track that one down.
See how this can get complicated very quickly? Changes to d/copyright need to be meticulously verified. I would prefer they are not done here, unless such careful verification and cross-checking with the debian policy is done, and also coordination with the same package in debian.
So if you want to change d/copyright, my recommendation would be to:
- do that in a branch of its own
- coordinate with debian, so both debian and ubuntu have the same file. Might need to update the version of the package in debian first, though (which would also benefit us both)
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