Re: DEP-5 format definition hell
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 because DEP5 is not finalized yet. When its inclusion into
the debian-policy package is final, the official copy of the spec
will be at a URL that will be like this:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/copyright-format/1.0
When this is ready, there will be an announcement on debian-devel-announce
and every other Format: URL will need to be amended. Until then,
use whatever you feel best like. The spec suggests something like this:
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?op=file&rev=REVISION
which seems like a reasonable thing to do, since it documents what
version of the spec the file is written against.
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