On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 08:43:25AM -0000, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2023-09-08, Jeremy Stanley <fu...@yuggoth.org> wrote: > > Since Debian's machine-readable format has been around longer than > > either of the newer formats you mentioned, it seems like it would > > make more sense for the tools to incorporate a parser for it rather
> I do think that this is another point of "we should kill our babies if > they don't take off". And preferably faster if/when "we lost" the race. > We carried around the debian menu for a decade or so after we failed to > gain traction and people centered on desktop files. > We failed to gain traction on the structure of the copyright file, and > spdx is the one who has won here. SPDX defines an xml format only. They lost before they'd even started. debian/copyright is supposed to be human-readable first and foremost. XML need not apply. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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