Re: parsable copyright format 1.0 (jessie release goals)
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 09:20:46AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 07:52:25PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>
> > > I fought quite hard against the copyright file format but was promised
> > > that it wouldn't be something required.
>
> > At least *I* never did such promise.
>
> I certainly did make the point that having a standard, machine-parseable
> copyright format available does not imply that it's mandatory to use it. I
> stand by this position, and am opposed to any efforts to make this mandatory
> until there is very good tooling for generating these files painlessly that
> the project has a high degree of confidence in.
I agree with my DEP5 co-driver.
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