Re: status of DEP5: Machine-readable debian/copyright

2012-01-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Bastien ROUCARIES writes: > Yes one question do I need to document aclocal.m4 copyright patchwork ? My take on this (but note that I'm not an ftpmaster): The debian/copyright file serves two separate purposes. First, it's included in binary packages to provide our mandatory license and copyrig

clarifying copyright policy (Re: status of DEP5: Machine-readable debian/copyright)

2012-01-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Charles Plessy wrote: > I would love the answer to this question documented somewhere, but I think > that it would not belong to the DEP 5 document. If you would like, you > can send the question to the FTP Master team and CC the bug number #462996 > (“Document requirements for copyright file.”).

Re: status of DEP5: Machine-readable debian/copyright (was: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status)

2012-01-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:07:54PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES a écrit : > > Yes one question do I need to document aclocal.m4 copyright patchwork ? Dear Bastien, judging from the packages that are accepted in our archive, the empirical answer is no. Nevertheless, the DEP 5 format and any free-for

Re: status of DEP5: Machine-readable debian/copyright (was: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status)

2012-01-17 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 01/17/2012 01:44 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:14:26PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >> >>> FTR given that I got no reports of problems with DEP-3, that it's already >>> well established, I just changed the state

Re: status of DEP5: Machine-readable debian/copyright (was: Patch Tagging Guidelines: DEP-3 moved to ACCEPTED status)

2012-01-16 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/17/2012 01:44 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:14:26PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > >> FTR given that I got no reports of problems with DEP-3, that it's already >> well established, I just changed the state of the DEP-3 from CANDIDATE >> to ACCEPTED. >> >> Of cours