Steve Langasek <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:09:16AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I can definitely see the desire for this metadata, but it feels to me >> like it would be better tracked in a separate file, such as Charles's >> proposed upstream metadata file. > In current practice, many maintainers include such information in > debian/copyright. As long as this is the case, I think the format > should provide for that in a more structured manner than a 'Comment' > field allows. These fields are already marked as optional; if policy > later dictates that this information shouldn't live in debian/copyright, > we can always phase them out. Do you see any harm in this? No, that's fine. I just wanted to be sure people realized that the information is optional in debian/copyright. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
