Re: New DEP: Usage of SDPX in debian/copyright

2022-02-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Are we discussing one (or more) of those topics here or at d-devel, or > both?!? Sorry, I for some reason thought the DEP discussion was moving here and had it stuck in my head that debian-project was where DEPs are discussed. I'll discuss this in debian-devel

Re: New DEP: Usage of SDPX in debian/copyright

2022-02-08 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > No one uses our RFC-2822-style thing except us, and no one has tools for it Well, then they should just apt install them. I failed to understand SPDX until today (with the exception of the license specifiers), which is mostly due to the quadrillion different formats SPDX data can come

Re: New DEP: Usage of SDPX in debian/copyright

2022-02-08 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi, On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 9:31 AM Russ Allbery wrote: > > No one uses our RFC-2822-style thing except us, and no one has tools > for it, so people are understandably quite reluctant to adopt it. I agree with that assessment. As far as I understand the situation of DEP-5 tooling, I may now

Re: New DEP: Usage of SDPX in debian/copyright

2022-02-08 Thread Stephan Lachnit
On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 6:55 PM Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Are we dicussing the request to take DEP-17 for a 3rd copyright file > format, or more generally how to best integrate SPDX in copyright files, > or something else? > > Are we discussing one (or more) of those topics here or at d-devel,

Re: New DEP: Usage of SDPX in debian/copyright

2022-02-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Russ Allbery (2022-02-08 18:22:46) > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > Quoting Stephan Lachnit (2022-02-08 16:02:20) > > >> I would like to request to take the next available DEP number (17 as of > >> today). It is about using the SPDX specification as an alternative to > >> the

Re: New DEP: Usage of SDPX in debian/copyright

2022-02-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Quoting Stephan Lachnit (2022-02-08 16:02:20) >> I would like to request to take the next available DEP number (17 as of >> today). It is about using the SPDX specification as an alternative to >> the machine-readable debian/copyright (previously DEP-5). An initial >>

Re: New DEP: Usage of SDPX in debian/copyright

2022-02-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Stephan Lachnit writes: > I would like to request to take the next available DEP number (17 as of > today). It is about using the SPDX specification as an alternative to > the machine-readable debian/copyright (previously DEP-5). An initial > discussion was started on debian-devel [1], and since

Re: New DEP: Usage of SDPX in debian/copyright

2022-02-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Stephan Lachnit (2022-02-08 16:02:20) > I would like to request to take the next available DEP number (17 as > of today). It is about using the SPDX specification as an alternative > to the machine-readable debian/copyright (previously DEP-5). An > initial discussion was started on

New DEP: Usage of SDPX in debian/copyright

2022-02-08 Thread Stephan Lachnit
I would like to request to take the next available DEP number (17 as of today). It is about using the SPDX specification as an alternative to the machine-readable debian/copyright (previously DEP-5). An initial discussion was started on debian-devel [1], and since there have been no large