Hi, I’m updating a debian/copyright file in DEP5 format, but I’m finding myself unable to pick an acceptable value for the Format: field. The previous value, from an earlier version of the package, is http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?op=file&rev=135 lintian correctly warns me (out-of-date-copyright-format-uri tag) that a new version of the specification is available, and points me to http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ for details. Trying to use that unversioned URI results in another lintian warning (unversioned-copyright-format-uri tag), suggesting that the correct format for the field is something along the lines of http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?revision=<revision> but that URI is broken, since the file has been moved. Fiddling a bit with the Web interface I came up with the following URI: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/dep/web/deps/dep5/copyright-format.xml?revision=240&view=markup which seems to do the trick as far as fetching the full source of DEP5 at the intended revision, but is not recognized by lintian (unknown-copyright-format-uri tag). As a last source of confusion, the document located at http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ seems to suggest that the canonical source is http://anonscm.debian.org/loggerhead/dep/dep5/trunk/annotate/head:/dep5/copyright-format.xml That URI does indeed work, but it contains no explicit revision number, and as far as I can tell it’s not possible to convince Loggerhead to both consider a specific revision *and* display the whole file. I think the ViewWC URI above is the most sensible choice. Any ideas? -- Andrea Bolognani <eof@kiyuko.org> Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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