Hi, On 2019-09-06 16:47, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, 2019-09-06 at 12:30:52 +0000, Chris Lamb wrote: > > Forwarding notes from anonymous ftptrainee: > > > > Could you say where you got the three copyright holders' names from, > > please? I don't see their names in the source. > > From the list of maintainers in the homepage, checking the differences > through the archive.org history. Should have indeed documented this in > a comment or something. And I'll ask upstream to make this explicit in > the repo. > > > Is pci.ids in its preferred form for modification? The upstream git > > history suggests that this file is being automatically generated from > > the database at <https://pci-ids.ucw.cz/>. Wouldn't someone wanting > > to edit pci.ids want to run want to modify the database and run the > > same code upstream runs to generate the new pci.ids file? > > I think this is a tricky one. The information wherein is just factual > data. My understanding is that the copyright here covers the aggregation > and output format, as in other similar compendia works. > > The source here is IMO a bit fuzzy, given that this is factual data. > There's a website, the purpose of which is to make it easy for the > current maintainers to incorporate proposed entries from third parties. > But the format shipped in the package is textual and can very > trivially be modified. If upstream was to stop maintaining the web > site I can see how someone else might prefer a workflow based on > merge requests to handle the updates to the files, for example. > > So, I guess very strictly speaking this is not the "source", but in > this case, I'm not sure what we gain by requiring to package the > database + the webiste scripts, so that the database can be loaded, > then dumped by the script into the shipped format? Seems all pretty > useless to me, when someone wanting to modify the source package would > have a way easier time just patching it, TBH.
I fully agree with that. > BTW the current pciutils package (where pci.ids is shipped right now) > and the usb.ids source are pretty much in the same exact situation > (CCed Aurelien). Adding the systemd maintainers in Cc: as both usb.ids and pci.ids are in the systemd source package. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net _______________________________________________ Pkg-systemd-maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-systemd-maintainers
