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Re: New DEP: Usage of SDPX in debian/copyright

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Hi,

On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 9:31 AM Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
>
> No one uses our RFC-2822-style thing except us, and no one has tools
> for it, so people are understandably quite reluctant to adopt it.

I agree with that assessment.

As far as I understand the situation of DEP-5 tooling, I may now have
(reluctantly) implemented in Lintian the most commonly used—and
therefore the authoritative—parser for the DEP-5 format. [1] I am only
aware of one other relevant implementation. [2]

> it really should have been (a restricted subset of) YAML

The issue with DEP-5 is not merely one of format. The standard is also
not fully specified. [3]

> My hope is that we can reuse standard data
> in a format that upstreams will start supplying, thus reducing the amount
> of Debian-specific work we need to do.

There is an opinion, possibly a minority, that the purpose of the
d/copyright file is to supply license information only for installable
packages. [4] For sources, there are other mechanisms, such as
comments or COPYRIGHT files, that are unlikely to be replaced by this
or other efforts.

Some folks even ship different copyright files with installables
generated from the same sources. [5]

Kind regards,
Felix Lechner

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/lib/Lintian/Check/Debian/Copyright/Dep5.pm
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/1000319
[3] https://bugs.debian.org/969541
[4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672284#31
[4] https://bugs.debian.org/672284

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New DEP: Usage of SDPX in debian/copyright Stephan Lachnit <stephanlachnit@debian.org> - 2022-02-08 16:10 +0100
  Re: New DEP: Usage of SDPX in debian/copyright Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2022-02-08 17:40 +0100
    Re: New DEP: Usage of SDPX in debian/copyright Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2022-02-08 18:40 +0100
      Re: New DEP: Usage of SDPX in debian/copyright Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2022-02-08 19:00 +0100
        Re: New DEP: Usage of SDPX in debian/copyright Stephan Lachnit <stephanlachnit@debian.org> - 2022-02-08 19:20 +0100
        Re: New DEP: Usage of SDPX in debian/copyright Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2022-02-08 21:10 +0100
      Re: New DEP: Usage of SDPX in debian/copyright Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> - 2022-02-08 19:20 +0100
      Re: New DEP: Usage of SDPX in debian/copyright Dominik George <natureshadow@debian.org> - 2022-02-08 19:40 +0100
  Re: New DEP: Usage of SDPX in debian/copyright Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2022-02-08 17:50 +0100
  Re: New DEP: Usage of SDPX in debian/copyright Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> - 2022-02-12 09:50 +0100

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