Hello everyone, As previously announced on debian-policy and a few other lists, I am going to upload Debian Policy 3.9.3 tomorrow. As previously announced, this will be the first release with a version of the machine-readable debian/copyright specification that can be considered official. It will be published on www.debian.org as version 1.0.
I realize that there is some remaining uncomfortableness with the current draft and some remaining debate over the status of the DEP process for it. However, convergence towards a common consensus on that does not seem to improving, and this standard is already in widespread use referencing a huge variety of versions of the document. Under the authority of my Debian Policy editor delegation, I'm making a somewhat unilateral decision to publish a 1.0 version as part of the Policy package. I'm concerned that otherwise the best will become the enemy of the good. I hope that decision will meet with the approval of as many people involved as possible; if not, I accept full responsibility for any toes that I'm stomping on. I'm reviewing the whole document for consistency and wording, and as subsequent messages in the thread started by this message, I will post diffs of any changes that result. I do not intend to make any normative changes other than the ones already previously discussed here and for which I believe there was consensus. I'm making some wording changes the way that I would for another Policy document. Review of all the changes is, of course, welcome. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/878vjwrr3m....@windlord.stanford.edu
