Re: DEP5: proposed versioned url for Format: does not work

2011-09-06 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi David, and others, On 11-09-05 at 05:25pm, David Given wrote: > I even spent a while looking for existing packages with the same > license as mine from which I could steal the copyright file, but I > couldn't find anything which used DEP5... Sorry to hear that you have tried and grown frustr

Re: DEP5: proposed versioned url for Format: does not work

2011-09-06 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le Monday 5 September 2011 18:25:48, David Given a écrit : > FWIW, I have recently tried to put together a DEP5 compliant copyright > file for a package I'm working on. I say 'tried' because eventually I > had to give up. I was simply unable to get enough information out of the > spec to produce a

Re: DEP5: proposed versioned url for Format: does not work

2011-09-06 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 12:55:26PM +0300, Andrew O. Shadura wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:46:50 +0600 > Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > > > Until that happens, please use whatever URL you like. I use > > > http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ myself. > > > Note that some people think that

Re: DEP5: proposed versioned url for Format: does not work

2011-09-06 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 15:46 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > DEP5 is in the process of being incorporated into the debian-policy > > package, and once that is finished, there will be a stable URL to > > the spec (with a version number in the URL), something like > > > > http://www.debia

Re: DEP5: proposed versioned url for Format: does not work

2011-09-06 Thread Andrew O. Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 15:46:50 +0600 Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > Until that happens, please use whatever URL you like. I use > > http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ myself. > Note that some people think that http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ is > not a versioned URL and so it doesn't comply t

Re: DEP5: proposed versioned url for Format: does not work

2011-09-06 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 05:56:25PM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > This is a minor issue,but I would propose to change it to > > http://svn.debian.org/viewvc/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?revision=REVISION > > if the Format field should point to a specific svn version of the > > document. However, as f

Re: DEP5: proposed versioned url for Format: does not work

2011-09-05 Thread Cédric Boutillier
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 05:05:35PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I would recommend in the meantime to use a versioned URL of your > choosing. As I believe is documented - the specific URL should be only > an example. On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 05:56:25PM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Until tha

Re: DEP5: proposed versioned url for Format: does not work

2011-09-05 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 03:34:22PM +0200, Cédric Boutillier wrote: > This is a minor issue,but I would propose to change it to > http://svn.debian.org/viewvc/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?revision=REVISION > if the Format field should point to a specific svn version of the > document. However, as far as

Re: DEP5: proposed versioned url for Format: does not work

2011-09-05 Thread David Given
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: [...] > I would recommend in the meantime to use a versioned URL of your > choosing. As I believe is documented - the specific URL should be only > an example. FWIW, I have recently tried to put together a DEP5 compliant copyright file for a package I'm working on. I say

Re: DEP5: proposed versioned url for Format: does not work

2011-09-05 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-09-05 at 03:34pm, Cédric Boutillier wrote: > The current version of DEP-5 encourages people to use versioned url > for the Format: Field, as far as I can see from the description of > this field, and the way the examples. > > However, using the proposed expression in the description of the