Hello, On Thu 07 Nov 2019 at 01:36AM -05, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Although I use it for simple packages, for complex ones I think it makes > debian/copyright maintenance much harder (many more things to get wrong). > It's totally optional and should absolutely stay that way. > > The purpose of debian/copyright is to support license compliance. Anything > beyond that isn't relevant to its purpose within Debian. While I recognize > that the structured format has benefits for some people, I don't think it > matters much within the project. I agree with this assessment. DEP-5 is the fastest way to write a d/copyright in some cases, but in others it is not. Part of this is that DEP-5 somewhat encourages people to include more detail than is needed. I think we should be optimising for reduced contributor time spent on this task. -- Sean Whitton
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