On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 04:02:35PM +0100, Noah Slater wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:56:25PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> writes: > > > > > Unless you are volunteering to write and maintain these files for our > > > large source packages, for which maintainers have already explained they > > > don’t want to waste their time with such bikeshedding, this discussion > > > is 100% useless. > > > > That's a false dichotomy. It's not necessary for *every* package to > > adopt a machine-parseable ‘debian/copyright’ format for there to be > > benefit from those that do. > > Agreed. I don't understand where this attack came from. > > No one is forcing you to concern yourself with the discussion around the > format. > If the discussion bores you, delete the emails and stop worrying. If the final > format is useless to you, don't use it.
If the sole purpose of the format is to have a machine-parseable format, if it doesn't apply to all packages, then the fact that it is machine-parseable is useless, because you won't be able to machine-parse all copyright information from all packages. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
