[ Cc:-ing policy integration bug report ] On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 01:51:23PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > There has been no plan to subsume DEP5 into Debian Policy. The only plan > I've seen is to turn *maintenance* of the machine-readable copyright format > over to the Debian Policy process and to *ship* a copy of the spec in the > debian-policy package; Well, I was assuming that DEP5 was going to become an "associated text" under policy §5.6.11 and, as such, subject to Standards-Version. That would bring IMHO various benefits such as: 1) the possibility of dropping Format:, 2) have a lintian check that doesn't need to preserve yet another version-format mapping; 3) documentation of format changes into upgrade-checklist. Clearly you disagree with that assumption and Lars has voiced his opinion in favor of a separate---and versioned---Format field as well. So be it. I still don't get how the versioned Format URL will look like once DEP5 will be shipped by debian-policy though. Would it use the Vcs-Browser of the debian-policy package or ...? Just curious. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere ti resta John Fante -- V. Capossela .......| ..: |.......... -- C. Adams
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