Hi, Markus Koschany wrote:
> I personally dislike the trend in Debian to create more and more > complexity in our source packages. I find the Standards-Version field > unnecessary, VCS fields should not be part of a debian/control file, all > DFSG licenses approved by our ftp-team should be listed in > /usr/share/common-licenses and maintainers allowed to reference them, > simple clarifications for copyright format 1.0 elements should not > require a separate document 1.1 and so on. Is this a trend? Most of the complexity you are describing has been there since day one, and efforts like the copyright format have tended toward simplification. > I have noticed that you are always in the opposite camp and a proponent > for more complexity. This is uncalled for, when Russ was just providing some context. Please, let's discuss the proposals, not the people. Sincerely, Jonathan
