Re: [DEP5] [patch] Renaming the ‘Maintainer’ field ‘Contact’

2010-08-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:24:07 +1200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I don't think they're required by Policy or the ftpmasters. At least the > pkg-perl team is using Maintainer/Upstream-Contact. I don't think they > use Name/Upstream-Name. Just as a data point: We are using both (Upstream-)Maintainer an

Re: [DEP5] [patch] Renaming the ‘Maintainer’ field ‘Contact’

2010-08-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 03:24:07PM +1200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: On to, 2010-08-19 at 10:31 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: my presonal point of view about fields in this DEP is that they should be required only if they are strictly necessary, and mentionned as optional only if there is a reasonabl

Re: [DEP5] [patch] Renaming the ‘Maintainer’ field ‘Contact’

2010-08-18 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2010-08-19 at 10:31 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > my presonal point of view about fields in this DEP is that they should be > required only if they are strictly necessary, and mentionned as optional only > if there is a reasonable plan to parse and exploit the data. > > I am not aware of

Re: [DEP5] [patch] Renaming the ‘Maintainer’ field ‘Contact’

2010-08-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 08:11:08AM +1200, Lars Wirzenius a écrit : > On su, 2010-08-15 at 06:25 +1200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > So we have at least three suggestions on the table now: > > > > 1. Rename Maintainer: to Contact: > > 2. Rename Maintainer: to Upstream-Contact: and Name: to Upstream-Na

Re: Debian accepting Social Micropayment?

2010-08-18 Thread Steffen Möller
On 08/18/2010 12:46 PM, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > [ all said above, I think ] >> When asking the spontaneous end user to donate, we shall not expect >> them to distinguish between the upstream work and our packaging work. >> I hence find it problematic to collect only for us. A Debian money drop

Re: [RFC] Questions for Git User's Survey 2010

2010-08-18 Thread Jakub Narebski
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Jakub Narebski wrote > > | 19. In your opinion, which areas in Git need improvement? > | ~ > | Please state your preference. > | (matrix) > | > |Columns: don't need / a little / some / much >

Re: Debian accepting Social Micropayment?

2010-08-18 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Steffen, On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:10:57PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > > Ehm, yeah, and my father is the emperor of china, then. > > As you know, in Debian we have to deal at least with: > > > > - uncorporative upstreams > > - dead upstreams > > - corporative upstreams > > > which would

Re: Debian accepting Social Micropayment?

2010-08-18 Thread Steffen Möller
Hi Patrick, On 08/18/2010 11:33 AM, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 06:18:39PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > >> On 08/17/2010 05:24 PM, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:02:43PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: >>> >>> >> we should only

Re: [RFC] Questions for Git User's Survey 2010

2010-08-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Jakub Narebski My comments are inline, | 19. In your opinion, which areas in Git need improvement? | ~ | Please state your preference. | (matrix) | |Columns: don't need / a little / some / much |-

Re: Debian accepting Social Micropayment?

2010-08-18 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Steffen, I assume nothing in your mail is adressing me privately so I'm quoting it in my reply to the mailing list. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 06:18:39PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > On 08/17/2010 05:24 PM, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:02:43PM +0200, Steffen Möller w

Re: DEP-5: general file syntax

2010-08-18 Thread Philip Hands
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:29:33 +1200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > For simplicity, I will introduce a new term, "desc-escape". This refers > to the escaping of content similar to the way Description does it in > debian/control: each line is prefixed with a space, except empty lines > are replaced with a