Re: 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

Re: 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

Re: 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

Re: 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

Re: 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

Re: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:56:31AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 01:03:21AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Pointing to particular revisions is ugly, but is less ugly IMHO than > > introducing (again) the possibility of multiple incompatible specs > > (subtly or otherw

Re: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-12 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ma, 2011-01-10 at 10:56 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > So, the only timeframe during which the problem can be experienced is > from now to the solution of #609160. I wonder if it is really worth to > address this issue properly---by changing either the intended usage of > Format: or by addin

Re: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 01:03:21AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > Pointing to particular revisions is ugly, but is less ugly IMHO than > introducing (again) the possibility of multiple incompatible specs > (subtly or otherwise) all referred to with the same "Format" > declaration. That is correct

Re: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 02:43:22PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On su, 2011-01-09 at 15:33 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > Well, the point of the revision dependent url was to avoid the url > > stopping to refer to the actual format used in the file. If you make > > that a stable url that may chang

Re: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-09 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On su, 2011-01-09 at 15:36 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > The Files field contains a space separated files list. What to do if the > file name contains a space? How should this space escaped? Preferably by glaring at whoever created a source file with spaces in the name until they fix it. Meanwhil

Re: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-09 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On su, 2011-01-09 at 15:33 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > Well, the point of the revision dependent url was to avoid the url > stopping to refer to the actual format used in the file. If you make > that a stable url that may change content, the Format: field becomes > pretty much useless. See http://

Re: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-09 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Sonntag, den 09.01.2011, 14:27 + schrieb Lars Wirzenius: > On su, 2011-01-09 at 15:18 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > * Lars Wirzenius , 2011-01-09, 14:00: > > > [3] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?rev=153&sc=0 > > > > > >If you are interested, please give the spec a quick rea

Re: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 02:27:44PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On su, 2011-01-09 at 15:18 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > * Lars Wirzenius , 2011-01-09, 14:00: > > > [3] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?rev=153&sc=0 > > > > > >If you are interested, please give the spec a quick rea

Re: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-09 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On su, 2011-01-09 at 14:27 +, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > But I guess I could change the rev=135 url to rev=153 for now, to avoid > confusion. Hasty brain make mistake. I changed it to http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ instead, since the r153 URL has the wrong examples. -- Blog/wiki/website hosti

Re: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-09 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On su, 2011-01-09 at 15:18 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Lars Wirzenius , 2011-01-09, 14:00: > > [3] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?rev=153&sc=0 > > > >If you are interested, please give the spec a quick read. If you find > >any real problems, it is not too late to get them fixed.

Re: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

2011-01-09 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Lars Wirzenius , 2011-01-09, 14:00: [3] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?rev=153&sc=0 If you are interested, please give the spec a quick read. If you find any real problems, it is not too late to get them fixed. Let me see: | Example: | | Format: http://svn.debian.org/wsv