Hello Simon,
nice to see you on the list.
Am 03.11.2026 22:02 schrieb Simon McVittie:
However, Debian does also need to be able to ship projects with a 20+
year history.
I do also have experience with cases like that, because I am the 3rd
generation upstream maintainer of Back In Time (~18years old).
Took me some time and lot of communication but now it is SPDX compliant.
(You might remember the python-dbus related issue about
"serviceHelper.py"?
This was one of the tasks in this context.)
(I think we should certainly not be *demanding* that upstreams do
that.)
Just asking and enforcing. Thats all.
For me, as upstream, the most motivating aspect is that I can reduce the
workload of DM/DD's, so that they might be able to handle the real
important
tasks instead of fucking around with d/copyright stuff.
This was my motivation to create "spdx2debian".
Best,
Christian
