Re: DEP-5: Comment field

2010-08-28 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2010-08-26 at 08:57 +1200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Comments on Comment? >From the absence of further comments I assume there is consensus. If I've overlooked anything, please tell me. Attached is the diff of the changes I'm merging into the master draft. === modified file 'dep5.mdwn' --- de

Re: DEP-5: Comment field

2010-08-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:18:17 +1200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Does anyone want hash comments to be allowed in debian/copyright? Are > they useful? I don't think I've ever used (or wanted to use) them. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4

Re: DEP-5: Comment field

2010-08-25 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2010-08-26 at 09:21 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Common comments come on. Heh. > - Will paragraphs that contain only a Comment field be valid ? Each paragraph is either a header (Format required), file license specification (Files required), or stand-alone license description (License

Re: DEP-5: Comment field

2010-08-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 08:57:34AM +1200, Lars Wirzenius a écrit : > The Comment field has been suggested for DEP-5. > > There is a pretty clear consensus that we want it. Thus, I propose this > to be added to the section explaining fields in the header (the > paragraph with Format etc): > >

Re: DEP-5: Comment field

2010-08-25 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ke, 2010-08-25 at 14:07 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Looks fine to me, although as a very minor point I'd replace Debian > ftpmaster team with upstream, since that's the more typical case. Fair enough. Done. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: DEP-5: Comment field

2010-08-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Lars Wirzenius writes: > The Comment field has been suggested for DEP-5. > There is a pretty clear consensus that we want it. Thus, I propose this > to be added to the section explaining fields in the header (the > paragraph with Format etc): > * **`Comment`** >* Optional >

DEP-5: Comment field

2010-08-25 Thread Lars Wirzenius
The Comment field has been suggested for DEP-5. There is a pretty clear consensus that we want it. Thus, I propose this to be added to the section explaining fields in the header (the paragraph with Format etc): * **`Comment`** * Optional * Single occurrence per par

DEP-5: comment field vs. license field

2010-08-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 06:18:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > As example of free-form comments that do not need a field, there is > > extracts of the correspondance with the authors when some points need to > > be confirmed, > This is a good point. > > and the traditional “On Debian systems,