On 2009-06-10, Peter Miller <pmil...@opensource.org.au> wrote: > > --=-N4erB4l6HGd3iNYSXuXj > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 13:53 +0100, Noah Slater wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:06:39AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: >> > If I understand the sentence in question correctly then the proposal >> > really requires me to create all three stanzas... that's insane! >>=20 >> Why is it insane? > > I have a project with over 4,000 source files. > It is 15 years old, so some of those files have 4 or 5 copyright notices > in them from contributors over the years. > Assuming I can coerce grep or awk to do it, the debian/copyright file > would wind up being over 20,000 lines long! No-one will ever read it, > plus it duplicates information already in the source package. > On the other hand, one line for each contributor means less than a dozen > lines, which makes far more sense IMHO. But, again, it duplicates > information in the AUTHORS file.
The more I read about this [DEP5], the more I get the feeling that it is only pushed by people who never maintained large source packages (that can change rapidly) /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
