On Tuesday, February 8, 2022 12:53:22 PM EST Stephan Lachnit wrote: > On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 5:00 PM Scott Kitterman <deb...@kitterman.com> wrote: > > Since Debian policy requires verbatim copies of licenses (or links to > > /usr/ > > share/common-licenses), I think any policy compliant debian/copyright will > > have to be human readable, but I'm not that familiar with SPDX, so maybe > > it > > will surprise me. > > You can find an example in my initial mail [1]. > > > I would be good to understand how this proposal supports Debian Policy. > > It would require a minor change: putting the verbatim license texts in > a single file is not possible anymore. But I don't why just copying > the licenses to "/usr/share/doc/PACKAGE/licenses/LICENSE" in addition > to the SPDX formatted debian/copyright would be any worse than the > current way. > > > Regards, > Stephan > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/01/msg00309.html
Personally, I don't view that as a minor change. I think before starting a DEP on this you ought to work out the policy implications. Currently any package using your proposed approach would be instantly RC buggy. Scott K
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
