Am 02.08.2018 um 16:27 schrieb gregor herrmann: > On Thu, 02 Aug 2018 15:13:26 +0800, Markus Koschany wrote: > >> Nothing will break because no tool besides Lintian checks >> debian/copyright for copyright format 1.0 compatibility. > > This is not correct. > > There are at least cme (with libconfig-model-dpkg-perl), decopy, > probably some of licensecheck/license-reconcile/cdbs (or whatever > consumes copyright_hints), dh-make-perl refresh, > libdebian-copyright-perl, and probably others which check and/or > create/update copyright-format 1.0 files.
Ok, so you have to tell your Perl tools that you can write a license paragraph without also having to specify the license in a separate standalone license paragraph. This is not really an incompatible change but merely a _new_ way to document it. You still have to write new code regardless if there is a new copyright format version or not. I don't think this is a real issue and it would still be better than to shift the work to everyone else in existence. We can also just keep allowing the boilerplate approach _together_ with the implementation of this proposal, so that nobody can complain about it? Regards, Markus
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