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Re: Let’s turn DEP5 into something useful



Johan Henriksson <mahogny@areta.org> writes:

> managed to ignore this discussion until now but anyway tossing in a coin.
>
> would it not be more interesting to standardize the format beyond
> debian? if you get upstream authors and language designers to supply the
> files then more "expensive" formats can be used, with less cost for us.
> and it would benefit other distributions as well.

This is certainly one of the things I'd like to get out of this.  I
already maintain detailed LICENSE files for those packages for which I'm
upstream, and I'd like to use the same format Debian uses if Debian has
a format.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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