Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions?
On December 26, 2019 6:21:08 PM UTC, Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 04:29:57PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
>> > Make the machine-readable copyright file mandatory.
>> > It is much easier to "parse" than just a bunch of copyright
>information.
>>
>> hear hear. (as in: what's blocking us from doing this?)
>I'm sure some people will orphan or RM their packages instead of
>writing
>machine-readable debian/copyright. I suspect it will be worse than
>mandating source format 3.0.
The notion that it's easier for a human to parse isn't universal. I don't find it's the case. Hard to follow copyright files can be written in any format.
Scott K
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