Bug#609160: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-18 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On la, 2011-01-15 at 23:38 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I still don't get how the versioned Format URL will look like once DEP5 > will be shipped by debian-policy though. Would it use the Vcs-Browser of > the debian-policy package or ...? Just curious. >From http://lists.debian.org/debian-pr

Bug#609160: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-16 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy writes: > There is another reason why I would not support an alignment on the > Policy's version number: from the begining we promised that DEP-5 was > not an attempt to modify the Policy. I don't recall that promise ever being made. Where did you see it? The promise in the first

Bug#609160: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:38:12PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > > Well, I was assuming that DEP5 was going to become an "associated text" > under policy §5.6.11 and, as such, subject to Standards-Version. That > would bring IMHO various benefits such as: 1) the possibility of > dropping F

Bug#609160: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-15 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 23:38:12 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I still don't get how the versioned Format URL will look like once DEP5 > will be shipped by debian-policy though. Would it use the Vcs-Browser of > the debian-policy package or ...? Just curious. From the attached diff in the first

Bug#609160: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ Cc:-ing policy integration bug report ] On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 01:51:23PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > There has been no plan to subsume DEP5 into Debian Policy. The only plan > I've seen is to turn *maintenance* of the machine-readable copyright format > over to the Debian Policy process an