DEP-5: Patches pushed to the Debian Policy repository

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
uot; on further consideration since British spelling is used elsewhere in the document. All of my changes have now been pushed to the Debian Policy repository and the document is in the state in which I intend to release it tomorrow as part of the Policy 3.9.3 release. Please review and send any

Re: DEP-5: Updates from a general editing pass

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > @@ -869,8 +908,12 @@ Copyright 2009, 2010 Angela Watts > GFDL > > > -GNU Free Documentation License 1.0, or > -http://spdx.org/licenses/GFDL-1.1";>1.1. &

DEP-5: Updates from a general editing pass

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
on this specification over the years. The - following alphabetical list is incomplete, please suggest missing people: + following alphabetical list is incomplete; please suggest missing people: Russ Allbery, Ben Finney, Sam Hocevar, @@ -134,43 +137,47 @@ Single-line

DEP-5: Updates from recent discussions

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
exception is in effect a dual-licensed work that can be redistributed either under the GPL-2+, or under the -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

DEP-5: General status and upcoming Policy release

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
document. Review of all the changes is, of course, welcome. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

Re: OSI affiliation

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
generate announcing our membership) that Debian is not adopting the OSI license review process for Debian and that Debian will continue to conduct its own license review as we do now, and that we continue to disagree with OSI in some areas on what licenses should be considered free. -- Russ Allbery (r...

Re: OSI affiliation

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
sort of purge of icky licenses > on their side. We would need to start by identifying the licenses that we care enough about to demand that they be purged. I suspect that list may be of zero size, mostly on the "care enough about" front. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: trademark licenses and DFSG: a summary

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
eir holders and substantial public confusion already exists. Note, though, that as I understand it people have to actually *use* the permissive grant that you've given them and create confusing products to undermine your mark. If you let people do it, but no one does, that's a differe

Re: trademark licenses and DFSG: a summary

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
our stable maintenance policies, and I think this is a good example of such a license. If I were packaging such a piece of software, I would proactively remove that clause from the license (nothing seems to prevent me from doing so), which would resolve the whole problem. That's

Re: trademark licenses and DFSG: a summary

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
rietary license with the difficult of renaming available as the stick. I think those two things are entirely consistent. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Bug#658209: DEP 5: last call before closing.

2012-02-13 Thread Russ Allbery
move forward anyway. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/877gzqqmth@windlord.stanford.edu

Re: How about using national flags instead of text in debian.org?

2012-02-05 Thread Russ Allbery
t's very easy to blunder into an argument that one never intended and cause significant offense. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Bug#658209: DEP-5: Clarifying copyright/license requirements

2012-02-02 Thread Russ Allbery
the issues that I come up with (if any). However, I think it's perfectly reasonable for me to do that within the time frame that you mention above, and I don't think the process should block on that work, so the deadline you propose sounds reasonable to me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian

Re: DEP-5: Clarifying copyright/license requirements

2012-01-19 Thread Russ Allbery
ng copyright and license status in debian/copyright. but I don't think people have read that as saying what we're trying to say above, although I believe that's the intention. Maybe because it conflates two things: a change in Policy, and not requiring additional informat

Requirements for copyright notices in debian/copyright

2012-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
t individual files within that package have headers that look like: Copyright 2008 Russ Allbery or: Copyright Joe Smith 1995 with the same GPL notice (so there's no ambiguity about any files under a different license). Does the Debian package maintainer need to include all those oth

Re: DEP-5: Clarifying copyright/license requirements

2012-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
not *require* any of that. This is probably going to require special language around the case of a Files: * stanza. This is something we were discussing in the previous round of discussion last December, and I'm increasingly convinced we really need to get this out of the way somehow and not

Re: DEP-5: Clarifying copyright/license requirements (was: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.)

2012-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
licenses. That is, you > can have "Files:" && "Copyright:" || "Files:" && "License:", but you > can't have "Files:" && "Copyright:" && "License:" I think this is way too much overhead. I

Re: 1 year release good enough.

2012-01-01 Thread Russ Allbery
and improve even faster, and I certainly wouldn't want to stand in the way of that, but it's not part of my metric of success. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: [DEP5] Format of Copyright header

2011-12-17 Thread Russ Allbery
d 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. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.

Re: [DEP5] Format of Copyright header

2011-12-16 Thread Russ Allbery
ay: Formatted text, no synopsis: one or more free-form copyright statement(s). Any formatting is permitted; see the examples below for some ideas for how to structure the field to make it easier to read. instead? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.o

Re: [DEP5] Format of Copyright header

2011-12-15 Thread Russ Allbery
space the continuation lines over by several more spaces, which in a free-form field indicates unwrappable text (just as in the Description field for a package). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-

Re: [DEP5] Format of Copyright header

2011-12-14 Thread Russ Allbery
is probably the simplest. It occurs to me that an alternative would be to say that line-based lists support something akin to RFC 5322 continuation semantics: if a line starts with two or more spaces, it's taken as a continuation of the previous line. Then you could do: Copyright: 2001 Russ A

Re: [DEP5] Expat or MIT license ?

2011-12-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Sorry about the bogus subject line. For some reason, our spam filtering software (from Sophos) is absolutely convinced that SPDX is a spam hosting site (and has persisted in that belief for well over a year now). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~ea

Re: [SPAM:####] [DEP5] Expat or MIT license ?

2011-12-12 Thread Russ Allbery
ambiguity for humans. However, SPDX also doesn't list the Expat license (under that name), so using MIT for the Expat license would bring us more in line with SPDX's registrations. I can see pluses and minuses either way. I think I'm not quite willing to support the change, but i

Re: [DEP5] Format of Copyright header

2011-12-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > I noticed in reviewing another patch that the Copyright header is a > line-based list. One unfortunate implication of that is that this means > lines are required to be longer than 80 columns if the name of the > copyright holder is long. For example: >

[DEP5] Format of Copyright header

2011-12-12 Thread Russ Allbery
to be used in copyright notices for software owned by Stanford because it's the official legal name under which the university holds property. See: http://otl.stanford.edu/inventors/inventors_copyright.html -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: [DEP5] clean up the document structure

2011-12-12 Thread Russ Allbery
age in each paragraph type. Patch is > attached. > Does this look ok? Does anyone think there's a better way to do this? > Have I introduced any errors in the conversion? Yes, please. This looks great. Thank you! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/

Re: [DEP5] Clarification of the minimum required structure

2011-12-12 Thread Russ Allbery
d the feedback in this thread, I think > there is a general preference for the second option. Russ, does this > meet your needs? Yup. That option seems fine to me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: [DEP5] Clarification of the minimum required structure

2011-12-12 Thread Russ Allbery
o be worth explaining. But we should probably decide explicitly if that's something we want to rule out. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Security guidelines for Debian people

2011-11-06 Thread Russ Allbery
I'd set an expiration date on it from the start and extended it periodically, it would have expired now and it would be clear that it's no longer my key. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-pr

Re: DEP: 5 Machine-readable debian/copyright - License specifications - Link broken

2011-09-11 Thread Russ Allbery
ocument, which is not part of Policy, just managed as part of the debian-policy package and via the same process. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

Re: How to pronounce?

2011-07-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney writes: > That doesn't seem right at all, though; English “Ian” is not pronounced > “ee'-en”, but “ee'-ən”. I think that depends on your dialect. I've heard both. (The difference is fairly subtle.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) &l

Re: Question about GNOME Trademark and GNOME project packages in Debian

2011-07-15 Thread Russ Allbery
ed to refer to the associated product and not some different product. However, at the point that one is making that argument, one is well into lawyer territory with murky and inconsistent outcomes in trials. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: Using corporate accounts when posting to Debian mailing lists

2011-05-11 Thread Russ Allbery
x27;s employer goes south. Employers are legally permitted in the US to intercept and read all of an employee's e-mail sent to a work address, for example. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...

Re: Question regarding Debian and CGL 5.0

2011-04-27 Thread Russ Allbery
? Often this sort of thing ends up being essentially a marketing tactic by the vendors involved in developing the specification rather than being something useful for improving technical quality. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To

Re: DEP5: Public domain works

2011-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
igh for upstream statements about licensing. It's much less likely that upstream will be wrong when they declare the license to be an MIT or 2-clause BSD license. But misunderstanding of public domain is widespread. Hell, I have stuff of my own that's distributed under a license that sa

Re: DEP5: Public domain works

2011-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
-domain keyword for things that aren't actually in the public domain but just have a license saying "this is in the public domain" or "you can treat this as if it's in the public domain," since in many countries that use Debian those works are *not* in the public do

Re: [DEP5] License field in the first paragraph ?

2011-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:32:38AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Jonas Smedegaard writes: >>> I.e. regarding my example, even if DEP5 should be corrected to also >>> mention License: in header paragraph, I should _still_ below that >>

Re: [DEP5] License field in the first paragraph ?

2011-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:23:44AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> But there are two other main reasons why I want an overall package >> license: >> * It's common to release GPL'd software that includes some >> 2-clause-BSD-li

Re: [DEP5] License field in the first paragraph ?

2011-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
ed under compatible terms. In that case, it's nice to be able to just specify a general package license and make it explicit that one is not claiming to have a comprehensive listing of all files with their copyright and license statements. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: [DEP5] License field in the first paragraph ?

2011-01-17 Thread Russ Allbery
ifically requested this, since one of the purposes to which I want to put DEP-5 requires some way of specifying the collective copyright and license for a package as a whole, regardless of the individual licenses of some files. This is not the same thing as a Files: * block that's overridden by

Re: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Lars Wirzenius writes: > On to, 2011-01-13 at 17:15 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Yeah, I think Source should be optional for native packages. > Would anyone oppose making such a change? Does Policy allow it? If > there's consensus for, and it's ok by Policy, then

Re: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-13 Thread Russ Allbery
volved with in Debian. Yeah, I think Source should be optional for native packages. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Please draft a policy for planet.debian.org

2010-11-11 Thread Russ Allbery
ly do. I suspect a blacklist on the Planet Debian side could kill most of the bugs after looking over Page Info. I personally blocked four different sites and that got 95% of them. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: commercial spam on planet

2010-11-11 Thread Russ Allbery
eople like and are interested in. I would have absolutely no concerns about such a thing on Planet, provided that the links were constructed such that they didn't become accidental web bugs. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-11 Thread Russ Allbery
quite uncomfortable with hosting my web site, which as previously mentioned has some affiliate links to an on-line bookstore, on the Stanford network even though it was on my personal hardware, and felt much more comfortable about that once I moved my personal web site to my own VMs hosted elsewher

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > Michael Gilbert writes: >> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:56:18 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> I respectfully disagree. Depending on the context and the situation, >>> I may consider someone asking me to give them money to be intrusive >>> an

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Gilbert writes: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:56:18 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I respectfully disagree. Depending on the context and the situation, I >> may consider someone asking me to give them money to be intrusive and >> obnoxious, and I reserve the right to com

Re: What is annoying in the flattr buttons?

2010-11-10 Thread Russ Allbery
und. They're culture-dependent, unlikely to be universal, and not very likely to change anyone's behavior. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: commercial spam on planet

2010-11-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog writes: > On Mon, 08 Nov 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Where I personally draw the line is that I'm fairly comfortable with >> Debian-involved people advertising their own services on Planet Debian: >> their own companies, their own consulting services,

Re: commercial spam on planet

2010-11-08 Thread Russ Allbery
d by how many people are endorsing it. But one of the points of Planet Debian is that it includes all of the project, in all of our disagreements.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@list

Re: No general political content on Planet

2010-11-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney writes: > Russ Allbery writes: >> Anyway, presumably decent feed reader software either has or could have >> added to it a similar feature to suppress particular posts from the >> collective feed by various criteria. The authorship information is in >> th

Re: No general political content on Planet

2010-11-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney writes: > Russ Allbery writes: >> The little minus next to someone's name seems to deal with that >> reasonably well if one doesn't feel up to ignoring it. > I get no “little minus” next to anyone's name on the Planet Debian > syndication

Re: No general political content on Planet

2010-11-04 Thread Russ Allbery
. Meeting one's fellow developer in person also (at least for me) helped a lot in turning random political content I strongly disagree with from something that pissed me off into something that just makes me roll my eyes and remember the good conversation we had. :) -- Russ Allbery

Re: DEP-5: clarify batching of copyrights, licenses in a single stanza

2010-10-28 Thread Russ Allbery
many, many other problems with our current practices. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: DEP5: non-DFSG repackaging documentation

2010-09-14 Thread Russ Allbery
l use the >> field name no matter what it's called, though. > I feel it is not, but if you judge this as nitpicking, I shall stop. Sorry, that probably came across poorly. I was referring to my own contribution as bikeshed painting, not to yours. I'm probably making too much of this

Re: DEP5: non-DFSG repackaging documentation

2010-09-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:23:12PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> It seems like overkill to me, but I guess I don't really care. But if >> the source is only URLs, then for some of my packages I either need to >> omit it or duplicate Homep

Re: DEP5: non-DFSG repackaging documentation

2010-09-14 Thread Russ Allbery
as > redistributing non-pristine "source" tarballs. But that field name also isn't an accurate representation of what's going on when the packaging is based on a Git tag. No manipulation is involved other than running git archive against a tag. -- Russ All

Re: DEP5: non-DFSG repackaging documentation

2010-09-14 Thread Russ Allbery
an upstream release tarball available from some URL *or* freeform text describing where the source came from. I don't think it's horribly important that the URLs in Source be machine-extractable, since that purpose is already served well by debian/watch. The field is primarily meant for human

Re: DEP5: Making "Files: *" non-optional

2010-09-13 Thread Russ Allbery
iles field in each paragraph for per-file license information, with a note in DEP-5 saying that if you want to declare copyright and license for the entire package, without making claims about specific files, you should put the fields in the first (header) paragraph of debian/copyright.

Re: DEP5: non-DFSG repackaging documentation

2010-09-13 Thread Russ Allbery
urce instead. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hbht48a4@windlord.stanford.edu

Re: DEP5: non-DFSG repackaging documentation

2010-09-13 Thread Russ Allbery
tead. I object to this change unless Policy is also changed to specify README.source as the location for documenting where the upstream source came from instead of debian/copyright. As long as debian/copyright is the location where that should be specified, the repacking should be documented there

Re: DEP-5: Files field and filename patterns

2010-08-26 Thread Russ Allbery
ented in DEP-5 (with the exception that I don't think we need to explain file glob patterns, except that DEP-5 should be clear about whether {} is allowed or not). I find the references to find behavior very confusing and never guess correctly about what find would do. -- Russ Allbery (r...@de

Re: DEP-5: Files field and filename patterns

2010-08-26 Thread Russ Allbery
icense of the build system, an "anywhere in the tree" pattern for Makefile.in is very helpful. Likewise, sometimes, for files like config.guess and config.sub. I realize doing this is optional from the ftp-master perspective, but I do that with my packages. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.

Re: DEP-5: Comment field

2010-08-25 Thread Russ Allbery
s not. > Comments on Comment? Looks fine to me, although as a very minor point I'd replace Debian ftpmaster team with upstream, since that's the more typical case. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Claiming DEP-7 for Java web application packaging

2010-08-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Hello everyone, I'm claiming DEP-7 for Java web application packaging, as outlined in the DEP-0 procedure. Here is the metadata: Title: Java Web Application Packaging DEP: 7 State: DRAFT Date: 2010-08-24 Drivers: Russ Allbery URL: http://dep.debian.net/deps

Re: UPDATE DEBIAN VER 2.1 ......AND MORE

2010-08-23 Thread Russ Allbery
ial statement if for no other reason than that the Debian project doesn't have any single primary focus. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: DEP-5: general file syntax

2010-08-22 Thread Russ Allbery
g the primary >> point of distribution of the software. > Since the syntax allows multiple URIs, and since the URIs may be long, I > think that allowing newlines in the field will make it more > readable. for instance by making it free-form (not formatted, see > below). I ag

Re: DEP-5: general file syntax

2010-08-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Lars Wirzenius writes: > On la, 2010-08-21 at 01:58 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I was assuming that's how we'd get to a 1.1 version. I haven't read >> DEP-0 recently, though, so I guess I have a poor grasp of how this is >> supposed to work. I'll

Re: DEP-5: general file syntax

2010-08-22 Thread Russ Allbery
he license text in a machine-readable format, in essence. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: DEP-5: Structure for multiple copyright statements

2010-08-21 Thread Russ Allbery
nk that people are going to want to parse and extract individual copyright holders for some reason? If so, we would need to standardize the format quite a bit, and I'm not sure it's worth it. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UN

Re: DEP-5: general file syntax

2010-08-21 Thread Russ Allbery
you don't want to throw away information. It's also a divergence from the Debian control file format, which allows only one instance of a field per stanza, probably for much the same reason. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> --

Re: DEP-5: general file syntax

2010-08-21 Thread Russ Allbery
year list using a range; for instance, do not write `1996--1998'; instead, write `1996, 1997, 1998'. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: DEP-5: general file syntax

2010-08-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Lars Wirzenius writes: > On pe, 2010-08-20 at 17:05 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I think a better approach would be to, once the document has settled >> down, publish it with a version number and give that version of the >> document a permanent URL. So, for instance, we wo

Re: [DEP5] [patch] Renaming the ‘Maintainer ’ field ‘Contact’

2010-08-21 Thread Russ Allbery
point, so I'll > force a decision: I'll keep the Upstream-Contact and Upstream-Name > fields in the spec. +1 -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: DEP-5: general file syntax

2010-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
I recommend that this > additional requirement is mentionned in the DEP. Order of paragraphs is significant in debian/control files. It never occurred to me that anyone would think that the order of paragraphs wasn't significant. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http

Re: DEP-5: general file syntax

2010-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
, > word-wrapping is OK, desc-escape is used. > * Everything else: newlines are not significant, word-wrapping is OK, > desc-escape is not used. Normal RFC822-style handling of line > continuations applies. I think we could merge all three of these into the same case by using the Descr

Re: Debian Facilitators

2010-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
ny mailing list ban capabilities should not apply to debian-vote, since that list has special constitutional roles. For that list, we should stick with the current rather high bar for listmaster intervention. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagl

Re: DEP-5: general file syntax

2010-08-17 Thread Russ Allbery
stated in a structured form. They're usually just defenses of why thet claimed license information is what it is (when it may, for example, contradict or supplement information included in the source files). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/

Re: Debian accepting Social Micropayment?

2010-08-17 Thread Russ Allbery
card processing (less than 5%). Ideally, they should be run on the same business model as Kiva or Network for Good where they don't take *any* overhead and are instead supported entirely by separate donations directly to the non-profit micropayment broker. -- Russ Allbery (r...@

Re: [DEP-5] [patch] Syntax of the files.

2010-08-15 Thread Russ Allbery
were program code, so that license text > that uses one of the many conventions for plain text formatting > will display OK. Sounds fine to me, except that the parenthetical is missing some words. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: DEP-5: file globbing

2010-08-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek writes: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 06:18:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I would prefer to use the same syntax as .gitignore, since it already >> deals with all of the complicated cases of matching files in particular >> paths versus a file by that name any

Re: [DEP-5] [re-patch] Syntax of the files.

2010-08-15 Thread Russ Allbery
to everyone. I personally am ambivalent; paragraph comes with the nice implication that it's separated by a blank line, and I don't find it confusing. But I've probably been dealing with this stuff for too long. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www

Re: [DEP-5] [patch] Syntax of the files.

2010-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
gant. I can't imagine how this could possibly matter to anyone. I routinely add or remove extra indentation for licenses when I move them from file to file even without DEP-5. But DEP-5 can certainly say that the leading spaces are not part of the field value. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org

Re: [DEP5] [patch] Renaming the ‘Maintainer ’ field ‘Contact’

2010-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek writes: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:09:16AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I can definitely see the desire for this metadata, but it feels to me >> like it would be better tracked in a separate file, such as Charles's >> proposed upstream metadata fi

Re: [SPAM:####] Re: [DEP-5] [patch] License table: more links and licenses.

2010-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
DEP-5, namely automated analysis of licenses. I'm not sure how to resolve that. Having a list that's guaranteed to never remove any keyword or change the meaning of any keyword after it's made the list is probably the best approach, since then people don't have to worry about the mea

Re: [DEP5] [patch] Renaming the ‘Maintainer ’ field ‘Contact’

2010-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
hink Upstream-Maintainer makes the most sense as the name of the field. I have no objections to keeping fields that people want to use, even if I don't want to use them, as long as they're marked optional. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: [DEP-5] [patch] Syntax of the files.

2010-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > Le Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 06:18:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : >> I would prefer to stick to a Debian control file format, since >> otherwise implementing DEP-5 aware checks in tools like Lintian is >> going to be more painful than it needs to be

Re: [DEP5] [patch] Renaming the ‘Maintainer ’ field ‘Contact’

2010-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
e forms of their names vary over time, and I'm not sure you'd reliably get the right data. I think you'd want to have a field somewhere where you can track people by CPAN ID, which wouldn't change. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/&g

Re: Using the Names field to indicate that a work was copied from somewhere else (Re: DEP-5: additional requirements to use with upstream).

2010-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
freeform text here so that I can say other things where needed, like the date at which I last synchronized source or to mention that the files are slightly modified. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-proje

Re: DEP-5: clarify batching of copyrights, licenses in a single stanza

2010-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Copyright 2010 Angela Watts the Copyright field for a stanza covering both file A and file B need contain only: Copyright 2008 John Smith Copyright 2009, 2010 Angela Watts -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To

Re: [DEP5] [patch] Renaming the ‘Maintainer ’ field ‘Contact’

2010-08-13 Thread Russ Allbery
many other places we could store such information. For example, upstream usually provides much more complete contact information including preferred methods of contact and related information, in a README file that we would normally install with the package documentation. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.or

Re: DEP-5 meta: New co-driver; current issues

2010-08-13 Thread Russ Allbery
mat that has reached consensus among the people discussing it and isn't going to keep changing. I'm also waiting for consensus on format before changing packages for which I'm upstream to use this format for their LICENSE files. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: DEP-5 meta: New co-driver; current issues

2010-08-13 Thread Russ Allbery
gt; 'any'. We should say explicitly that the copyright field is a rollup of all relevant copyright declarations for that group of files, yes. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lis

Re: DEP-5: additional requirements to use with upstream

2010-08-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney writes: > Russ Allbery writes: >> > Would a generic multi-line Comment: field be sufficient? >> >> Yes. > Would an end-line comment syntax, like the one that already works in the > ‘debian/control’ file, be sufficient? > If so, then we can avoid di

Re: DEP-5: additional requirements to use with upstream

2010-08-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Lars Wirzenius writes: > On to, 2010-08-12 at 17:14 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> * An additional section with the same syntax as the Files section but with >> no Files field that would be used for documenting the copyright of the >> distribution as a whole. (In US

Re: DEP-5 meta: New co-driver; current issues

2010-08-12 Thread Russ Allbery
st match counts. I would prefer to use the same syntax as .gitignore, since it already deals with all of the complicated cases of matching files in particular paths versus a file by that name anywhere in the tree and does so in a well-specified way. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

DEP-5: additional requirements to use with upstream

2010-08-12 Thread Russ Allbery
use case could be served by just allowing a comment field in the files section, I suppose, and that may be a better approach since it's more general. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ.

Re: DEP-5 meta: New co-driver; current issues

2010-08-12 Thread Russ Allbery
information. > * Make it possible to say "this package is licensed under foo > except fileA which is licensed under bar" I'm not sure why you don't think this is already possible. I do this all the time using the existing DEP-5 specification. -- Russ Allbery (r..

Re: DEP-5 meta: New co-driver; current issues

2010-08-12 Thread Russ Allbery
e number is already well over 1,000, or in other words I think we already have more than enough to have something useful to work on. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

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