Le Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:15:57PM +0100, Jon Dowland a écrit : > > So as it stands, no inheritance is possible, and every Files: line must be > accompanied by a Copyright: and a License: line.
Hi again, to my knowledge, nobody proposed inheritance before you, probably because most people see the “stanza” format as a suite of independant blocks (whith a special role for the first one). But the purpose of the DEP process is to discuss ideas and pick up good ones once there is no evidence of strong opposition, so why not? Having a mantadory Files: field was strongly opposed on debian-devel, and is not required by our Policy nor our archive administrators, so DEP 5 will need to support the case where no Files: field is present (otherwise we can just flag the DEP as rejected and go back to other tasks), and the rule that you summarised above needs to be changed anyway. Also, given the precedence rule that you cited, the order of the stanzas already matters, so it would not complicate the writing of parsers too much to implement an inheritance rule. Since you are already writing a parser, do you have a precise proposition to make ? Have a nice day, Charles [PS: since I am subscribed to -devel with the digest option, I will patiently wait for the next digest to arrive before answering to your other email.] -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
