Dear Guillaume, Craig and Steve, I have just found the bug #542863 reported on dh-make, where Guillaume suggests Craig to use the machine-readable format for the template of debian/copyright.
While I support the use of this format, I am worried that having it suggested by dh-make would create a standard despite it is still a draft. For instance, if hundreds of package use a given field name with a given syntax, it becomes naturally an argument against their modification, and in my opinion it is very important that in the future discussions about standardisation of the format, the door is still wide open for accepting changes. I am therefore tempted to recommend against the inclusion of a template in dh-make. Or alternatively, there could be a template, with a big explanation that the format is still not fixed, and that the feedback of the people who use it will be very welcome once a public discussion is opened, but that this discussion may result in changes that are not predictable and that therefore using the template does not guarantee to be compliant in the long term. Since Steve is quite implicated in DEP-5 as well, I put him in the loop so that he can comment on this. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
