Re: DEP-5 requirements
Le Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 03:53:07PM +0200, Arno Töll a écrit :
> On 22.08.2011 15:12, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > DEP 5 will be distributed in the debian-policy package (see #609160), but there
> > is not plan of making it part of the Policy, in the sense of being mandatory or
> > strongly recommended.
>
> I didn't imply any "must"/"required" constraints as per policy
> definition. I intended the "may" in my sentence as normatively defined
> in the policy.
> Yet I am curious, whether you know about concrete plans to integrate
> DEP-5 into the policy. I don't mean the wording itself, where I am fine
> to have it referenced in the policy only, but about the normative meanings.
>
> Your explanation implies, it won't be "must" or "should", so I can
> conclude "may" or no reference at all?
Hi again,
in my understanding, there is no plan to promote the machine-readable format
for debian/copyright defined by DEP 5 in the Debian policy. I think that a
good parallel is the format of the Debian changelog. It now became so common
that it would be disruptive to change it, and therefore alternative formats
were eventually removed from Policy in 2009. I think that the machine-readable
debian/copyright format specified in DEP 5 is far from that point.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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