Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> writes: > I plan to switch the DEP's status to CANDIDATE since it's about time > to start using this new format to try it out. Once I've done this, > I'll announce it on d-d-a to encourage people to start using it.
Thanks for your ongoing work on this, I'm finding it useful. > -The meta-information would be stored in a set of RFC-2822 compliant > -fields. Those fields should start on the first non-empty line (after > -having stripped whitespace characters at the start and end of lines). > +The meta-information would be stored in a set of RFC-2822-like > +fields (the difference with RFC-2822 is that newlines are meaningful in > +the Description field, they are not simple continuation characters). A minor point: If we're going to refer to the standard for these fields, then RFC 2822 is obsoleted by the current draft standard, RFC 5322 <URL:http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322>. -The meta-information would be stored in a set of RFC-2822 compliant -fields. Those fields should start on the first non-empty line (after -having stripped whitespace characters at the start and end of lines). +The meta-information would be stored in a set of RFC-5322-like +fields (the difference with RFC-5322 is that newlines are meaningful in +the Description field, they are not simple continuation characters). +Those fields should start on the first non-empty line (after having +stripped whitespace characters at the start and end of +lines). > +Sample DEP-3 compliant headers > +------------------------------ […] > +A patch created by the the Debian maintainer John Doe, which got forwarded > +and rejected: > + > + Description: Use FHS compliant paths by default > + Upstream is not interested in switching to those paths. > + . > + But we will continue using them in Debian nevertheless to comply with > + our policy. > + Forwarded: http://lists.example.com/oct-2006/1234.html > + Author: John Doe <j...@foobar.com> > + Last-Update: 2006-12-21 I would prefer if the ‘Origin’ field was recommended (or even required?) for every patch by this specification. What would an appropriate value for this field be in this example? -- \ “Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual | `\ profit without individual responsibility.” —Ambrose Bierce, | _o__) _The Devil's Dictionary_, 1906 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
