On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:08:56 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Sat 09 Nov 2019 at 03:07PM +01, gregor herrmann wrote: > > Lately we as a project, guided by the DPL, have been in > > recommendation mode anyway: "Use dh(1) unless you have a reason not > > to", "Use git(1) and salsa unless …". > > I think "Write d/copyright in Copyright-Format 1.0 unless you have a > > specific reason not to do this for a specific package" would be a > > good continuation of this streak. > I too find this a bit strong -- given what I've said about about > optimising for writing these files, I don't think we should be expecting > people to come up with a package-specific reason if they find themselves > wanting to use the old format.
Fair enough (and I'm not wed to the throw-away wording in any way.) > I'd like to suggest this recommendation could be of the same strength as > the "use salsa" recommendation, i.e., weaker than the dh recommendation, > and directed at people with no reasons to prefer either who are > wondering which to use. I was not aware of a difference in strength between the two recommendation [0] but yes, the "people with no reason to prefer either" was the direction I was heading at. Cheers, gregor [0] I'm probably not in the target group as I'm doing it anyway -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Element of Crime: Black and White
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