Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-14 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello gregor, On Tue 12 Nov 2019 at 11:32PM +01, gregor herrmann wrote: > I was not aware of a difference in strength between the two > recommendation [0] but yes, the "people with no reason to prefer > either" was the direction I was heading at. Well, dh is a recommendation of Policy, but

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-13 Thread Thorsten Glaser
gregor herrmann dixit: >On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:08:56 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> optimising for writing these files, I don't think we should be expecting >> people to come up with a package-specific reason if they find themselves Thanks. >> I'd like to suggest this recommendation could be of

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 09:49:26PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 07.11.2019, 13:40 + schrieb Thorsten Glaser: > > [snip] > > If forcing machine-readable copyright is required for UMEGAYA, > > then I’m sorry to say I will be removing debian/upstream/metadata > > from some

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 06:07:46AM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Andreas" == Andreas Tille writes: > > Andreas> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 11:32:09PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > >> > I'd like to suggest this recommendation could be of the same > >> strength as > the "use salsa"

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-13 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Andreas" == Andreas Tille writes: Andreas> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 11:32:09PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: >> > I'd like to suggest this recommendation could be of the same >> strength as > the "use salsa" recommendation, i.e., weaker than >> the dh recommendation, > and

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 11:32:09PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > > I'd like to suggest this recommendation could be of the same strength as > > the "use salsa" recommendation, i.e., weaker than the dh recommendation, > > and directed at people with no reasons to prefer either who are > >

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:08:56 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Sat 09 Nov 2019 at 03:07PM +01, gregor herrmann wrote: > > Lately we as a project, guided by the DPL, have been in > > recommendation mode anyway: "Use dh(1) unless you have a reason not > > to", "Use git(1) and salsa unless …". > > I

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-12 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat 09 Nov 2019 at 03:07PM +01, gregor herrmann wrote: > Lately we as a project, guided by the DPL, have been in > recommendation mode anyway: "Use dh(1) unless you have a reason not > to", "Use git(1) and salsa unless …". > > I think "Write d/copyright in Copyright-Format 1.0 unless

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-10 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Donnerstag, den 07.11.2019, 13:40 + schrieb Thorsten Glaser: [snip] > If forcing machine-readable copyright is required for UMEGAYA, > then I’m sorry to say I will be removing debian/upstream/metadata > from some of my packages rather. Why is a machine-readable debian/copyright (DEP5,

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 1:40 AM Russ Allbery wrote: > Maybe one of these days I'll take a couple of days and turn it into > something vaguely maintainable and usable by someone else. We already have a lot of similar tools for this, unfortunately the most accurate ones (FOSSology & ScanCode)

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-09 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 4:16 PM Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Saturday, November 9, 2019 3:05:21 PM EST Ole Streicher wrote: > > Hi Scott, > > > > Scott Kitterman writes: > > > I'd like to suggest thinking about this from the perspective of new > > > contributors. Copyright-format 1.0 has a lot of

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-09 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Saturday, November 9, 2019 3:05:21 PM EST Ole Streicher wrote: > Hi Scott, > > Scott Kitterman writes: > > I'd like to suggest thinking about this from the perspective of new > > contributors. Copyright-format 1.0 has a lot of specific requirements. > > Do we really want to recommend that

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-09 Thread Ole Streicher
Hi Scott, Scott Kitterman writes: > I'd like to suggest thinking about this from the perspective of new > contributors. Copyright-format 1.0 has a lot of specific requirements. Do > we > really want to recommend that before someone can package software for Debian > they need to learn this

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-09 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Saturday, November 9, 2019 9:07:39 AM EST gregor herrmann wrote: > On Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:40:28 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > Some remarks: > > Andreas Tille dixit: > > >explicit wish to not use DEP5. I wonder what other reasons might exist > > >to explicitly stick to the non-machine

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-09 Thread Russ Allbery
gregor herrmann writes: > On Fri, 08 Nov 2019 10:51:45 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> DEP-5 is the fastest way to write a d/copyright in some cases, but in >> others it is not. Part of this is that DEP-5 somewhat encourages people >> to include more detail than is needed. >> >> I think we

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-09 Thread Thorsten Glaser
gregor herrmann dixit: >Lately we as a project, guided by the DPL, have been in >recommendation mode anyway: "Use dh(1) unless you have a reason not >to", "Use git(1) and salsa unless …". > >I think "Write d/copyright in Copyright-Format 1.0 unless you have a >specific reason not to do this for a

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-09 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 08 Nov 2019 10:51:45 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > DEP-5 is the fastest way to write a d/copyright in some cases, but in > others it is not. Part of this is that DEP-5 somewhat encourages people > to include more detail than is needed. > > I think we should be optimising for reduced

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-09 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:40:28 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Some remarks: > Andreas Tille dixit: > >explicit wish to not use DEP5. I wonder what other reasons might exist > >to explicitly stick to the non-machine readable format. > I prefer human-readable format. I also often deal in software

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-08 Thread Scott Kitterman
On November 8, 2019 6:29:05 PM UTC, Simon McVittie wrote: >On Fri, 08 Nov 2019 at 10:51:45 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: >> DEP-5 is the fastest way to write a d/copyright in some cases, but in >> others it is not. Part of this is that DEP-5 somewhat encourages >people >> to include more detail

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon McVittie writes: > into this less precise form? > Format: imagine the correct URL is here > Copyright: > 2010-2019 Aaron Aaronson > 2019 Belinda Bloggs > 2016 Chris Cross > License: AAA and BBB and CCC > License: AAA > You may do some things >

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-08 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 08 Nov 2019 at 10:51:45 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > DEP-5 is the fastest way to write a d/copyright in some cases, but in > others it is not. Part of this is that DEP-5 somewhat encourages people > to include more detail than is needed. It would probably help if we had more clarity

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-08 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Thu 07 Nov 2019 at 01:36AM -05, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Although I use it for simple packages, for complex ones I think it makes > debian/copyright maintenance much harder (many more things to get wrong). > It's totally optional and should absolutely stay that way. > > The purpose of

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-07 Thread Richard Laager
On 11/7/19 7:40 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > I also often deal in software which > has more… flexibility than the DEP 5 format allows, or where it is > plain simpler. Would you be willing to share an example, at a minimum just the name of the package? -- Richard

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 08:33:23AM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote: > > @Andreas: Independently of how this goes for the Debian Policy, > recommending DEP5 would be a good thing for the policies of Debian > Science and friends (astro, med). I have not checked but I'd say every Debian Med package has

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-07 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Andreas Tille dixit: >explicit wish to not use DEP5. I wonder what other reasons might exist >to explicitly stick to the non-machine readable format. I prefer human-readable format. I also often deal in software which has more… flexibility than the DEP 5 format allows, or where it is plain

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-07 Thread Mo Zhou
On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 08:33:23AM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote: > Andreas Tille writes: > > I would love to see another discussion here to reach more uniformity in > > Debian packaging and rise importance of DEP5 by recommending it in > > Debian Policy. > > I would really support that. A

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-06 Thread Ole Streicher
Andreas Tille writes: > I would love to see another discussion here to reach more uniformity in > Debian packaging and rise importance of DEP5 by recommending it in > Debian Policy. I would really support that. A recommendation does not mean that there may be some exceptional cases where DEP5 is

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Tille writes: > I admit I'm astonished about this. From my point of view DEP5 was > decided to be good packaging practice and I assumed that not changing to > DEP5 would be a matter of "not important for me to spent my time on a > DEP5 conversion". However, I'm reading Thorstens

Re: Usage of DEP5

2019-11-06 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, November 7, 2019 1:26:42 AM EST Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > in a change to UpstreamMetadata in Wiki[1] Thorsten Glaser wrote: > >These fields must still be allowed, as not all packagers wish to use DEP > 5. > > I admit I'm astonished about this. From my point of view DEP5

Usage of DEP5

2019-11-06 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, in a change to UpstreamMetadata in Wiki[1] Thorsten Glaser wrote: These fields must still be allowed, as not all packagers wish to use DEP 5. I admit I'm astonished about this. From my point of view DEP5 was decided to be good packaging practice and I assumed that not changing to DEP5