Quoting Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer (2013-06-27 19:42:16) > On Thursday 27 June 2013 11:19:40 Alexandre Rebert wrote: > > > I do not think that you should try to implement this immediately > > > but from a Debian Maintainers point of view we now could present a > > > case where it makes perfectly sense to use DEP5 formated copyright > > > files and if we try to do this more strictly future tests could > > > profit from it. > > > > For our purposes, it would useful to have a way to extract upstream > > developers' addresses automatically. I'd love to see DEP5 adopted > > for this reason. > > But even if adopted and up to date, it doesn't means that's the > correct way of dealing with upstream. Many addresses will be of former > developers, and in most situations it will not be the best way to > contact upstream. Some will want a mail to a specific mailing list, > some other to open an issue in their bugtracker, ... I disagree with your remark that "...it will not be the best way...": DEP5 Upstream-Contact hint is defined as the preferred form of contact for upstream. So if adopted and up-to-date, it will be the correct (and will also be up-to-date - that's obviously implied from it being, ahem, up-to-date). Regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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