Re: FYI: Updates to copyright and author notices

2017-05-30 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, I wonder if Policy might refer to the package changelog for a reader seeking more comprehensive information on copyrights? I have in mind the Haskell team's boilerplate for d/copyright: Files: debian/* Copyright: held by the contributors mentioned in debian/changelog License:

Bug#863729: debian-policy: please use the cgit link in Vcs-Browser

2017-05-30 Thread Ferenc Wágner
Package: debian-policy Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, Your control file specifies https://anonscm.debian.org/git/dbnpolicy/policy.git as Vcs-Browser, but the gitweb interface gives "Bad object id:" messages when clicking into the shortlog section. Please switch to https://anonscm.debian.org/cg

Bug#863729: debian-policy: please use the cgit link in Vcs-Browser

2017-05-30 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 04:22:06PM +0200, Ferenc Wágner wrote: > Your control file specifies > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/dbnpolicy/policy.git > as Vcs-Browser, but the gitweb interface gives "Bad object id:" messages > when clicking into the shortlog section. How is gitweb involved in any way

Re: FYI: Updates to copyright and author notices

2017-05-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Sean Whitton writes: > I wonder if Policy might refer to the package changelog for a reader > seeking more comprehensive information on copyrights? I have in mind > the Haskell team's boilerplate for d/copyright: > Files: debian/* > Copyright: held by the contributors mentioned in debia

Bug#863729: debian-policy: please use the cgit link in Vcs-Browser

2017-05-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Ferenc Wágner writes: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: minor > Your control file specifies > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/dbnpolicy/policy.git > as Vcs-Browser, but the gitweb interface gives "Bad object id:" messages > when clicking into the shortlog section. Please switch to > https://a

Bug#863729: marked as done (debian-policy: please use the cgit link in Vcs-Browser)

2017-05-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 30 May 2017 18:50:22 +0200 with message-id <878tlee1bl@lant.ki.iif.hu> and subject line Re: Bug#863729: debian-policy: please use the cgit link in Vcs-Browser has caused the Debian Bug report #863729, regarding debian-policy: please use the cgit link in Vcs-Browser to b

Bug#863729: marked as done (debian-policy: please use the cgit link in Vcs-Browser)

2017-05-30 Thread Russ Allbery
ow...@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) writes: > The (Browse) link on https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-policy. Now > I notice it isn't the one in the control file. I assumed that was the > result of some redirection, but that's not the case. You indeed fixed > this in the exper

FYI: Adding BSD license to the debconf specification

2017-05-30 Thread Russ Allbery
The debconf specification document included in Policy had only the following in its section: This text is copyright by the authors under the terms of the BSD license, sans advertising clause. While that's relatively unambiguous, it doesn't match the terms of the BSD license (which requir

Re: FYI: Update to GPL notices

2017-05-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 05:35:47PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > As part of the XML conversion, I noticed the GPL notices on the three > documents released under the GPL were the older form that had an FSF > street address. I updated them to the current recommended form, including > switching to al