Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> writes: > Not currently seems to imply that at some point it will be > mandatory at some point. I find that somewhat presumptuous, but > perhaps I am reading too much into the "in this current time" bit. I > would put it as this is a proposal. It is not, and will not become > policy, unless something improves radically. Even so, it might never > become policy, and at this point a proposal in good enough shape to > even start discussing the merits of the idea does not exist. When a > proposal which is even maginally viable is licked into shape, it shall > be brought forth to light again. And, if it is very good, it might live > to see light in policy.
One intermediate way in which I could see this specification going into Policy without it being required for anyone would be to add a subsection of the copyright section that says "you are not required to use any particular format for debian/copyright, but if you *want* to use a structured format, please use this one." I can see some value in doing that without requiring the format and I think it would fit into the mandate of Policy to do so. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
