Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> writes: > On Thu, Mar 26 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> 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. > You think policy shol recommend people use a format known to ve > flawed, in draft form, and scheduled to be radically changed? No, no. Not until it's been discussed and is fairly stable. Sorry, I wasn't clear. My only point was that we can put it into Policy without making it mandatory (or even recommended unless people *want* to use a machine-parsable format). -- 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
