Le Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 10:45:58AM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Charles Plessy <[email protected]> writes: > > > How about applying the same change to Upstream-Contact, and removing the > > line-based list syntax entirely ? > > Line-based lists are not an invention of DEP-5 -- they're a standard field > type in Policy -- so I don't think there's a huge need to get rid of them. > They're a fairly natural structure for Upstream-Contact, which I don't > think poses the same problem.
Lists with one item per line are definitely a natural format for documenting multiple contacts addresses. Nevertheless, note that in Debian control files, the multiline fields containing lists start with an empty line. In that sense, “line-based lists” are a specificity of DEP 5, because they do not start with an empty line. I think that currently there is no project to parse copyright files and extract this information. This is why I would not mind the DEP being simplified there. But I am probably biased, as I have argued before that the Upstream-Contact field should be removed altogether. I think that this field is a survivance from dh_make's template, that lists “Upstream Author(s)” in addition to the copyright holders. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
