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Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format



On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 09:51:04PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> 2008/12/2 Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>:
> > [ M-F-T set to -devel ]
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 07:30:54PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> >> We should somehow tag those conflictive licenses with debtags, so that
> >> users can filter out the ones they don't wont easily. I don't object
> >
> > Except that debtags are right now for binary packages, whereas
> > copyright is for source packages.
> >
> > Moreover, copyright is something already coded (and correctly "fixed")
> > in debian/copyright.
> >
> > The solution to your problem already exists (actually, it has been
> > *designed* for that): http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat
> > , it "just" needs someone with the energy of finalizing the proposal
> > (most likely via a DEP), so that is stops being an ever changing wiki
> > page.
> 
> Well, not exactly, you cannot easily see the copyright file before
> installing the package, can you?

It's linked from the packages.d.o and PTS page for the package.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>

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