Re: automatically parseable debian/copyright

2007-11-30 Thread Jan Beyer
On 11/30/2007 03:18 AM, Charles Plessy wrote : Le Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 04:46:38PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : So, I would say that we actually have reached a consensus on that format. We are simply missing wide acceptance, but that would come with time ... and any package adopting the

Re: libdbi upload still missing leading to broken libapache-mod-log-sql (was: automatically parseable debian/copyright)

2007-11-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
Paul Wise wrote: when I return from VAC. Arrggg (dying)... So libapache-mod-log-sql is uploaded with a dependency to libdbi = 0.8.2, and libdbi is not uploaded yet (because of that copyright problem)... If another DD sees this message, would it be possible to upload by libdbi and

Re: automatically parseable debian/copyright

2007-11-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:45:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Don't confuse it being mandatory with it being allowed. The format Full ack. In addition to that, before my last ping on the copyright proposal on -devel, I remember having gone through the original thread and I remember having not

Re: automatically parseable debian/copyright

2007-11-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 04:46:38PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : So, I would say that we actually have reached a consensus on that format. We are simply missing wide acceptance, but that would come with time ... and any package adopting the new format would help :) Hi all, Since it is

automatically parseable debian/copyright

2007-11-28 Thread Bart Martens
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:44 +0930, Paul Wise wrote: I'd suggest that the copyright file should be redone and done so it can be parsed automatically: http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat Hi Paul, As far as I know, it has not yet been decided that the debian/copyright files must

Re: automatically parseable debian/copyright

2007-11-28 Thread Paul Wise
[I'm on the list no need to CC me] On Nov 28, 2007 6:15 PM, Bart Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know, it has not yet been decided that the debian/copyright files must be formatted as described on the wiki page quoted above. Or did I miss some decision ? You didn't miss

Re: automatically parseable debian/copyright

2007-11-28 Thread Bart Martens
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:44 +0930, Paul Wise wrote: I'd suggest that the copyright file should be redone and done so it can be parsed automatically: http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 18:21 +0930, Paul Wise wrote: On Nov 28, 2007 6:15 PM, Bart Martens

Re: automatically parseable debian/copyright

2007-11-28 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:27:21AM +0100, Bart Martens wrote: On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:44 +0930, Paul Wise wrote: I'd suggest that the copyright file should be redone and done so it can be parsed automatically: http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat On Wed, 2007-11-28 at

Re: automatically parseable debian/copyright

2007-11-28 Thread Joey Hess
Bart Martens wrote: On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:44 +0930, Paul Wise wrote: I'd suggest that the copyright file should be redone and done so it can be parsed automatically: http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat Hi Paul, As far as I know, it has not yet been decided that the

Re: automatically parseable debian/copyright

2007-11-28 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:45:07PM +, Joey Hess wrote: Bart Martens wrote: On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:44 +0930, Paul Wise wrote: I'd suggest that the copyright file should be redone and done so it can be parsed automatically: http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat

Re: automatically parseable debian/copyright

2007-11-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Nov 28, 2007 8:28 PM, Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMO there's nothing wrong with suggesting to do things in a certain way, even if there is no consensus about that (yet). Perhaps this suggestion looked a bit too much like this is how it should be done and not enough like you could

Re: automatically parseable debian/copyright

2007-11-28 Thread Ben Finney
, instead of *prescribing* a practice before it becomes accepted. So an automatically parseable debian/copyright format should be adopted by many packages and acknowledged to be a benefit, *before* any decision on making it mandatory. -- \ Always do right. This will gratify some people