Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2022-01-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Am Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 12:56:56PM +0100 schrieb Bill Allombert: > > What I'm actually imagine is that the time I need to write this kind of > > mails I could perfectly use to convert 2-3 d/copyright files from old > > format to DEP5. And now I'm wondering why I'm not doing so ... > > Do not

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2022-01-28 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 12:41:39PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: ) > > > I personally would rather think that excluding files from the upstream > > > source is a pretty good reason to make DEP5 mandatory *for these cases*. > > > Besides a sensible way of documentation it saves maintainer time to > >

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2022-01-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Bill, Am Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 10:00:36AM +0100 schrieb Bill Allombert: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 09:08:17AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > It should be possible to use it with the plain old copyright format too, > > > otherwise we are kind of renegating on our promise that the machine > > >

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2022-01-28 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 09:08:17AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > > It should be possible to use it with the plain old copyright format too, > > otherwise we are kind of renegating on our promise that the machine > > readable copyright format be optionnal. > > Did we ever promised this?

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2022-01-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, Am Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 11:25:31PM +0100 schrieb Bill Allombert: > > > + > > > +These types of files, or any others that Debian does not want to > > > +include in our archive, must be stripped from the upstream > > > tarball > > > +prior to uploading. The

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2022-01-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, Am Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 02:52:18PM -0700 schrieb Sean Whitton: > > We don't remove files for the sole reason that they're intended for use > on other platforms. It's typically only done if the files are huge. So > please remove this one from the list. > > How about just saying: we always

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2022-01-27 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 02:52:18PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Joe, > > + > > +These types of files, or any others that Debian does not want to > > +include in our archive, must be stripped from the upstream tarball > > +prior to uploading. The Files-Excluded

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2022-01-27 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Joe, Thanks for the patch. Here's a review: On Sat 13 Nov 2021 at 11:21PM -05, Joe Nahmias wrote: > + > + Pre-compiled executable binary or other non human-editable > files; > + The reason we remove these is also DFSG. > + > + >

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2021-11-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Am Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 11:21:26PM -0500 schrieb Joe Nahmias: > Well, it took me longer than I anticipated to get around to this; > nevertheless, > below is my first draft at a patch to document Files-Excluded. It's my first > time writing for Debian Policy, so please let me know if I didn't use

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2021-11-13 Thread Joe Nahmias
Hello again, On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 03:14:02PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun 25 Oct 2020 at 09:40PM -04, Joe Nahmias wrote: > > > Is this truly the case that all that's needed is a new patch? Can we get > > an official ACK from one of the policy editors? I'd be happy to

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2021-09-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 05:54:59PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 03:58:55PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > > > Gentle ping to Policy editors for that seconding :-) It would be really > > > nice to move this info from tribal knowledge to documentation. > > > > There's no

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2021-09-18 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 03:58:55PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Fri 17 Sep 2021 at 06:24PM -04, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > Sean Whitton writes: > >> On Sun 25 Oct 2020 at 09:40PM -04, Joe Nahmias wrote: > >>> Is this truly the case that all that's needed is a new patch? Can we get > >>> an

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2021-09-17 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Fri 17 Sep 2021 at 06:24PM -04, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Hi, > > Sean Whitton writes: > >> Hello, >> >> On Sun 25 Oct 2020 at 09:40PM -04, Joe Nahmias wrote: >> >>> Is this truly the case that all that's needed is a new patch? Can we get >>> an official ACK from one of the policy

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2021-09-17 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi, Sean Whitton writes: > Hello, > > On Sun 25 Oct 2020 at 09:40PM -04, Joe Nahmias wrote: > >> Is this truly the case that all that's needed is a new patch? Can we get >> an official ACK from one of the policy editors? I'd be happy to re-write >> the original patch to apply against HEAD if

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2020-10-26 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sun 25 Oct 2020 at 09:40PM -04, Joe Nahmias wrote: > Is this truly the case that all that's needed is a new patch? Can we get > an official ACK from one of the policy editors? I'd be happy to re-write > the original patch to apply against HEAD if that's all that is required. Well, it

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2020-10-25 Thread Joe Nahmias
Hello, I really miss the mention of Files-Excluded in CF1.0 and when searching found this bug. On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 02:12:37PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > Contrary to an older e-mail in this bug, the consensus among the Policy > Editors is that we can add new, optional fields to

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2019-02-15 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Thu 14 Feb 2019 at 08:45PM +01, Christian Kastner wrote: > On 2012-08-21 14:34:50 +0200 Andreas Tille wrote:> I > would propose the following addition to >> >> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ >> >> --- 8<

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2019-02-14 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2012-08-21 14:34:50 +0200 Andreas Tille wrote:> I would propose the following addition to > > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ > > --- 8< - > Files-Excluded > -- > >

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2012-08-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: debian-policy Severity: minor Hello, there was some discussion on debian-devel@l.d.o about enabling uscan to remove files from an upstream tarball automatically. In this discussion (first mentioning was here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/08/msg00406.html ) the idea

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2012-08-21 Thread Charles Plessy
user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org usertags 685506 normative discussion retitle 685506 copyright-format: new Files-Excluded field thanks Le Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 02:34:50PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : I would propose the following addition to

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2012-08-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 09:59:28PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: user debian-pol...@packages.debian.org usertags 685506 normative discussion retitle 685506 copyright-format: new Files-Excluded field thanks Thanks for enhancing the metadata. At this moment, I would recommend to look how the

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2012-08-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:34:50 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ --- 8 - Files-Excluded -- Whitespace-separated list: list of patterns indicating files

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2012-08-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 04:54:13PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:34:50 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ --- 8 - Files-Excluded