Please review vnd.debian.copyright: a media type for machine-readable copyright files.

2012-09-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear reviewers, the Debian Project would like to submit the media type vnd.debian.copyright, and in line with the draft update of RFC 4288 (draft-ietf-appsawg-media-type-regs-14), we would like to hear your comments about our submission in preparation, that follows. Best regards, Charles Plessy

Re: A media type for the machine-readable copyright format ?

2012-09-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > I was wondering about the same, but I was worried that having a > broad-readership mailing list as a contact point would create confusion > about who is expected to answer. How about debian-policy@lists.d.o ? > It is anyway the contact point for the specification itself.

Bug#397939: clean rule behavior underspecified and inconsistent with common practice

2012-09-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Still, if any of you would like to do it, please wait a bit. Let's release > > Wheezy first. > > I agree that we should not upload any change along these lines to > policy in the near future. I disagree that we

Bug#397939: clean rule behavior underspecified and inconsistent with common practice

2012-09-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Still, if any of you would like to do it, please wait a bit. Let's release > Wheezy first. I agree that we should not upload any change along these lines to policy in the near future. I disagree that we should not find a consensus about correct behavior and

Bug#397939: clean rule behavior underspecified and inconsistent with common practice

2012-09-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > * Jonathan Nieder [120911 05:45]: > >> The requirements in policy for > >> "debian/rules clean" are very stringent --- to avoid the > >> "unrepresentable changes" it would be enough to _remove

Bug#397939: clean rule behavior underspecified and inconsistent with common practice

2012-09-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Jonathan Nieder [120911 05:45]: >> The requirements in policy for >> "debian/rules clean" are very stringent --- to avoid the >> "unrepresentable changes" it would be enough to _remove_ the modified >> (regenerated) files, but policy req

Bug#397939: clean rule behavior underspecified and inconsistent with common practice

2012-09-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Jonathan Nieder [120911 05:45]: > > during the last months i had to review several packages. Quite a number > > of packages were not buildable two times (eg. "unrepresentable changes > > to source"). Most of these packages used svn-buildpackage or > > cvs-buildpackage. This bug is quite annoying

Re: A media type for the machine-readable copyright format ?

2012-09-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:41:52PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > I wonder if the contact address shouldn't be something less tied to > > project individuals, like for instance debian-project@lists.d.o. Given > > there is already a separation between this and the author field > > (allowing to giv

Re: A media type for the machine-readable copyright format ?

2012-09-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 08:51:24AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 08:10:18AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > here is the information that I consider submitting to the IANA. > > > Person & email address to contact for further information: > > Charles Plessy > […