Re: DEP: 5 Machine-readable debian/copyright - License specifications - Link broken

2011-09-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:53:05AM +0100, Steve Langasek wrote: > As the DEP is not yet in a state that it should be accepted, I don't think > it's appropriate to ask the Policy maintainers to tie the timeline of the > 3.9.3.0 Policy release to the DEP bugfixing. Fair enough. > Per my discussion

Re: DEP: 5 Machine-readable debian/copyright - License specifications - Link broken

2011-09-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:53:05AM +0100, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > Per my discussion with Lars, and as indicated in his previous mail, I will > continue to follow the DEP process on debian-project to get bugfixes applied > to DEP5 and will ask the policy maintainers to sync with the DEP when I

Re: DEP: 5 Machine-readable debian/copyright - License specifications - Link broken

2011-09-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 06:34:38AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > It has been proposed that upon release of the version 3.9.3.0 of the > debian-policy package, DEP 5 will be published somewhere on www.debian.org as > version 1.0 of the ‘copyright-format’ specification, and I have not seen > objecti

Re: DEP: 5 Machine-readable debian/copyright - License specifications - Link broken

2011-09-11 Thread Ben Finney
Scott Kitterman writes: > [the DEP 5 document states] > "This is not a proposal to change the policy in the short term." > > Is the short term over or is the presence of this statement in Debian > Policy (git anyway) merely ironic? Neither. DEP 5 still does not change Debian Policy in any way.

Re: DEP: 5 Machine-readable debian/copyright - License specifications - Link broken

2011-09-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 05:54:41PM -0400, Scott Kitterman a écrit : > On Sunday, September 11, 2011 05:34:38 PM Charles Plessy wrote: > ... > > http://git.debian.org/?p=dbnpolicy/policy.git;a=blob;f=copyright-format/cop > > yright-format.xml http://wiki.debian.org/PolicyChangesProcess > ... > > "T

Re: DEP: 5 Machine-readable debian/copyright - License specifications - Link broken

2011-09-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Scott Kitterman writes: > "This is not a proposal to change the policy in the short term." > Is the short term over or is the presence of this statement in Debian Policy > (git anyway) merely ironic? It's not in the Debian Policy. It's in the copyright format document, which is not part of Po

Re: DEP: 5 Machine-readable debian/copyright - License specifications - Link broken

2011-09-11 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday, September 11, 2011 05:34:38 PM Charles Plessy wrote: ... > http://git.debian.org/?p=dbnpolicy/policy.git;a=blob;f=copyright-format/cop > yright-format.xml http://wiki.debian.org/PolicyChangesProcess ... "This is not a proposal to change the policy in the short term." Is the short term

Re: DEP: 5 Machine-readable debian/copyright - License specifications - Link broken

2011-09-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 09:45:18AM +0100, Lars Wirzenius a écrit : > I'll note, in public, that after meeting with Steve in person, and > having had a friendly and constructive discussion about DEP5 with him, > I'll be stepping down from an active drivership role, at least for > a while, and Steve

Re: DEP: 5 Machine-readable debian/copyright - License specifications - Link broken

2011-09-11 Thread Lars Wirzenius
I'll note, in public, that after meeting with Steve in person, and having had a friendly and constructive discussion about DEP5 with him, I'll be stepping down from an active drivership role, at least for a while, and Steve will take care of getting any linguistic or other changes that he feels sho

Re: DEP: 5 Machine-readable debian/copyright - License specifications - Link broken

2011-09-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.2.0 Severity: minor Subject: [copyright-format] correct or add links to SPDX. Dear all, I attached a patch that corrects or adds links to the SPDX Open Source License Registry. > On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 12:22:15AM +0200, m...@cryptolab.net wrote: > > > > ht

Re: DEP: 5 Machine-readable debian/copyright - License specifications - Link broken

2011-09-09 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Oh dear. Linking to spdx.org is clearly a bad idea. We should link to locations that are stable. This should really be fixed in the debian-policy git, but since any changes there are currently having massive lag time, I'll just Cc debian-project to notify people of the problem, while we figure ou