Bug#609160: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-18 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On la, 2011-01-15 at 23:38 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I still don't get how the versioned Format URL will look like once DEP5 will be shipped by debian-policy though. Would it use the Vcs-Browser of the debian-policy package or ...? Just curious. From

Bug#609160: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:38:12PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : Well, I was assuming that DEP5 was going to become an associated text under policy §5.6.11 and, as such, subject to Standards-Version. That would bring IMHO various benefits such as: 1) the possibility of dropping

Bug#609160: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-16 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: There is another reason why I would not support an alignment on the Policy's version number: from the begining we promised that DEP-5 was not an attempt to modify the Policy. I don't recall that promise ever being made. Where did you see it? The

Bug#609160: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ Cc:-ing policy integration bug report ] On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 01:51:23PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: There has been no plan to subsume DEP5 into Debian Policy. The only plan I've seen is to turn *maintenance* of the machine-readable copyright format over to the Debian Policy process and

Bug#609160: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-15 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:38:12 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I still don't get how the versioned Format URL will look like once DEP5 will be shipped by debian-policy though. Would it use the Vcs-Browser of the debian-policy package or ...? Just curious. From the attached diff in the first