Ticket #632 (new enhancement)

Opened 14 years ago

Last modified 12 years ago

use DEP-5 debian/copyright format

Reported by: geofft Owned by:
Priority: low Milestone: Current Semester
Component: -- Keywords:
Cc: Fixed in version:
Upstream bug:

Description

Following up to #564 (clean up licensing), it would be nice to switch to using the  DEP-5 format for machine-readable debian/copyright files in the standard Debian control-file syntax. (Note that the "standard" MIT license goes there by the name of Expat.)

One thing to note here is that I see no explicit provision for stating the licensing of the "packaging" separately, but I think in all our cases it suffices to make a Files: debian/* stanza.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by jdreed

  • Priority changed from insignificant to normal
  • Milestone changed from The Distant Future to Quantum Quetzalcoatl

This is now policy as of 3.9.3, and we should deal at some point, at least going forward.

 http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by jdreed

  • Priority changed from normal to low
  • Milestone changed from Current Semester to Summer 2013

I've updated Copyright to reflect this, and committed our first package that uses it. We should switch the entire archive at some point, but "eww".

Last edited 12 years ago by jdreed (previous) (diff)
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