Bug#883950: Next steps on "[GPL-3+]" proposal

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Markus Koschany wrote:

> I personally dislike the trend in Debian to create more and more
> complexity in our source packages. I find the Standards-Version field
> unnecessary, VCS fields should not be part of a debian/control file, all
> DFSG licenses approved by our ftp-team should be listed in
> /usr/share/common-licenses and maintainers allowed to reference them,
> simple clarifications for copyright format 1.0 elements should not
> require a separate document 1.1 and so on.

Is this a trend?  Most of the complexity you are describing has been
there since day one, and efforts like the copyright format have tended
toward simplification.

> I have noticed that you are always in the opposite camp and a proponent
> for more complexity.

This is uncalled for, when Russ was just providing some context.

Please, let's discuss the proposals, not the people.

Sincerely,
Jonathan