Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2022-01-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Am Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 12:56:56PM +0100 schrieb Bill Allombert: > > What I'm actually imagine is that the time I need to write this kind of > > mails I could perfectly use to convert 2-3 d/copyright files from old > > format to DEP5. And now I'm wondering why I'm not doing so ... > > Do not slow

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2022-01-28 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 12:41:39PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: ) > > > I personally would rather think that excluding files from the upstream > > > source is a pretty good reason to make DEP5 mandatory *for these cases*. > > > Besides a sensible way of documentation it saves maintainer time to > >

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2022-01-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Bill, Am Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 10:00:36AM +0100 schrieb Bill Allombert: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 09:08:17AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > It should be possible to use it with the plain old copyright format too, > > > otherwise we are kind of renegating on our promise that the machine > > >

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2022-01-28 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 09:08:17AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > > It should be possible to use it with the plain old copyright format too, > > otherwise we are kind of renegating on our promise that the machine > > readable copyright format be optionnal. > > Did we ever promised this?

Bug#685506: debian-policy: Please add field Files-Excluded to machine readable copyright files definition

2022-01-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, Am Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 11:25:31PM +0100 schrieb Bill Allombert: > > > + > > > +These types of files, or any others that Debian does not want to > > > +include in our archive, must be stripped from the upstream > > > tarball > > > +prior to uploading. The Files-E