Re: DEP-5 format definition hell

2011-05-30 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 01:57:29PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > Hi, > I currently see a wild mix of different format definitions used by people > hitting debian-mentors. While I personally don't care as long as > the copyright file is complete I don't think this fulfills the goal of > this DEP. >

Re: DEP-5 format definition hell

2011-05-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Goirand writes: > P.S: What's blocking DEP5 from reaching the policy? > I think it's great the way it is right now already... It's already in the Policy package and was aging there for one release to be sure we didn't mess anything up when rewriting it to DocBook. Please review the versi

Re: DEP-5 format definition hell

2011-05-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/29/2011 11:53 PM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 01:57:29PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > >> I currently see a wild mix of different format definitions used by people >> hitting debian-mentors. While I personally don't care as long as >> the copyright file is complete I don

Re: DEP-5 format definition hell

2011-05-29 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 01:57:29PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > I currently see a wild mix of different format definitions used by people > hitting debian-mentors. While I personally don't care as long as > the copyright file is complete I don't think this fulfills the goal of > this DEP. This is

DEP-5 format definition hell

2011-05-29 Thread Sven Hoexter
Hi, I currently see a wild mix of different format definitions used by people hitting debian-mentors. While I personally don't care as long as the copyright file is complete I don't think this fulfills the goal of this DEP. It would be nice if the involved people would clarify what should be used.