]] Russ Allbery | After a discussion on IRC, I organized a BoF at DebConf10 to discuss new | source formats, specifically 3.0 (git). Below are the notes from that | discussion. I tried to take reasonably comprehensive notes, but I'm sure | that I missed things. Other participants, please add any additional bits | that I forgot!
I assume this is also meant as a starting point for further discussion on the topic. [...] | ftp-team is concerned about doing license checks across the entire git | archive Colin points out that we're in the same situation with Alioth for | redistributability. However, it is easier to withdraw things from Alioth | than from the archive. And redistributability (the legal requirement) is | a lot less of a bar than what we check for DFSG. While I am sympathetic with the problem of reviewing a large source repository, I find myself increasingly considering the git repository as the preferred form for modification, meaning that even a shallow clone can't really be considered source any more than preprocessed source would be, or a configure script without the corresponding configure.ac. To some extent, I guess this then comes down to whose preferred form we're talking about, if it's upstream's, Debian's, popular opinions, the strictest of those, the least strict or something else entirely? I don't really have a good solution here, so if somebody has a way to make both camps happy, that'd be wonderful. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8762zhgl0j....@qurzaw.linpro.no
