Hello, I made some last changes to the DEP following round 4. You'll find them below. I plan to switch the DEP's status to CANDIDATE since it's about time to start using this new format to try it out. Once I've done this, I'll announce it on d-d-a to encourage people to start using it.
Current version: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ === Changes since last round === I waiwed the RFC-2822 compliancy requirement: -The meta-information would be stored in a set of RFC-2822 compliant -fields. Those fields should start on the first non-empty line (after -having stripped whitespace characters at the start and end of lines). +The meta-information would be stored in a set of RFC-2822-like +fields (the difference with RFC-2822 is that newlines are meaningful in +the Description field, they are not simple continuation characters). +Those fields should start on the first non-empty line (after having +stripped whitespace characters at the start and end of +lines). I added some samples: +Sample DEP-3 compliant headers +------------------------------ + +A patch cherry-picked from upstream: + + Description: Fix regex problems with some multi-bytes characters + Origin: upstream: http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=bdb56ba + Bug: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9697 + Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/510219 + +A patch created by the the Debian maintainer John Doe, which got forwarded +and rejected: + + Description: Use FHS compliant paths by default + Upstream is not interested in switching to those paths. + . + But we will continue using them in Debian nevertheless to comply with + our policy. + Forwarded: http://lists.example.com/oct-2006/1234.html + Author: John Doe <j...@foobar.com> + Last-Update: 2006-12-21 + +A vendor specific patch not meant for upstream submitted on +the BTS by a Debian developer: + + Description: Workaround for broken symbol resolving on mips/mipsel + The correct fix will be done in etch and it will require toolchain + fixes. + Forwarded: not-needed + Origin: vendor: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=80;bug=265678 + Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/265678 + Author: Thiemo Seufer <t...@debian.org> Comments welcome! Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
