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



On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:28:59PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> 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.

You're a Debian Developer - you have the right to ignore about
everything except release critical bugs in your packages.


Michael


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