On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 11:13:16PM -0700, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (...) > * Having to munge the license text to fit it in the 822 format is one of > the uglier bits of this proposal, especially since we don't require > that license texts be DFSG free..
Surely, any license text, be it DFSG free or not, can be reformatted. (...) > * Makes even more clear that debian/copyright is not the best place for > Source URLs. They rather stick out from the other data, and this would > be a great time to go ahead and move them to the control file. > Dropping them entirely in favour of watch files -- not so good: It's > good to know where a package came from even if a tarball can't be > auto-extracted from there by uscan. Seconded. By the way, it would be nice if lintian did a check of the url. It often happens that when I look at a url in copyright files, they are so old that they don't exist anymore. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
