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

2011-09-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:53:05AM +0100, Steve Langasek wrote: As the DEP is not yet in a state that it should be accepted, I don't think it's appropriate to ask the Policy maintainers to tie the timeline of the 3.9.3.0 Policy release to the DEP bugfixing. Fair enough. Per my discussion

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

2011-09-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:53:05AM +0100, Steve Langasek a écrit : Per my discussion with Lars, and as indicated in his previous mail, I will continue to follow the DEP process on debian-project to get bugfixes applied to DEP5 and will ask the policy maintainers to sync with the DEP when I am

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

2011-09-11 Thread Lars Wirzenius
I'll note, in public, that after meeting with Steve in person, and having had a friendly and constructive discussion about DEP5 with him, I'll be stepping down from an active drivership role, at least for a while, and Steve will take care of getting any linguistic or other changes that he feels

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

2011-09-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 09:45:18AM +0100, Lars Wirzenius a écrit : I'll note, in public, that after meeting with Steve in person, and having had a friendly and constructive discussion about DEP5 with him, I'll be stepping down from an active drivership role, at least for a while, and Steve

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

2011-09-11 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday, September 11, 2011 05:34:38 PM Charles Plessy wrote: ... http://git.debian.org/?p=dbnpolicy/policy.git;a=blob;f=copyright-format/cop yright-format.xml http://wiki.debian.org/PolicyChangesProcess ... This is not a proposal to change the policy in the short term. Is the short term

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

2011-09-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Scott Kitterman deb...@kitterman.com writes: This is not a proposal to change the policy in the short term. Is the short term over or is the presence of this statement in Debian Policy (git anyway) merely ironic? It's not in the Debian Policy. It's in the copyright format document, which

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

2011-09-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 05:54:41PM -0400, Scott Kitterman a écrit : On Sunday, September 11, 2011 05:34:38 PM Charles Plessy wrote: ... http://git.debian.org/?p=dbnpolicy/policy.git;a=blob;f=copyright-format/cop yright-format.xml http://wiki.debian.org/PolicyChangesProcess ... This is

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

2011-09-11 Thread Ben Finney
Scott Kitterman deb...@kitterman.com writes: [the DEP 5 document states] This is not a proposal to change the policy in the short term. Is the short term over or is the presence of this statement in Debian Policy (git anyway) merely ironic? Neither. DEP 5 still does not change Debian Policy

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

2011-09-09 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Oh dear. Linking to spdx.org is clearly a bad idea. We should link to locations that are stable. This should really be fixed in the debian-policy git, but since any changes there are currently having massive lag time, I'll just Cc debian-project to notify people of the problem, while we figure

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

2011-09-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.2.0 Severity: minor Subject: [copyright-format] correct or add links to SPDX. Dear all, I attached a patch that corrects or adds links to the SPDX Open Source License Registry. On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 12:22:15AM +0200, m...@cryptolab.net wrote: