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Re: DEP-5: Please clarify the meaning of "same licence and share copyright holders"



On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 07:03:40PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:

> And after all, debhelper didn't need a DEP at all in order to come into
> widespread use, so your worst case scenario could equally well come to pass
> without ever going through a public discussion process - there are already a
> fair number of formatted debian/copyright files in the wild based on nothing
> more than a pretty bad wiki draft...

It feels like half the problem here is that making it a DEP feels much
more like something that's being pushed to everyone.  If it were going
through a similar process to debhelper people would probably feel more
comfortable about ignoring it.


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