On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 01:47:25PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> I've a question related to that: what do you think would be best for the
> DEP-5 version published at http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ ?
>
> Would it be OK to have a big fat warning there saying "this DEP has been
> accepted and is now maintainer at <URL>, please refer to that for the
> most up to date version of this specification"?
Answering to self, I hereby propose the following patch for the DEP-5
repository. It implements the "(not so) big fat warning" suggestion
above. Unless there are objections, I'll push it to the repository a
week for now, together with the change of state from CANDIDATE to
ACCEPTED of DEP-5.
Cheers.
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=== modified file 'dep5/copyright-format.xml'
--- dep5/copyright-format.xml 2011-12-18 17:38:43 +0000
+++ dep5/copyright-format.xml 2012-02-26 15:58:10 +0000
@@ -34,6 +34,18 @@
<section id="introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>
+
+ <note>
+ <title>Current Version</title>
+ <para>
+ This specification is now maintained as a <ulink
+ url="http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/";>separate
+ standard</ulink> that is part of the <filename>debian-policy</filename>
+ package. Please refer to it for the most up to date version of this
+ specification.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+
<para>
This is a proposal to make <filename>debian/copyright</filename>
machine-interpretable. This file is one of the most important files in
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