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DEP 5 is a DEP currently in DRAFT stage.

It is being developed within the DEP process:

http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5

The files can be accessed from the Bazaar version control branch:

$ bzr checkout http://bzr.debian.org/dep/dep5/trunk/ dep5.trunk/

Archived discussion

Prior to 2009-03-25, the proposal was being developed on this wiki-page. Discussions that were ongoing on this wiki from that point in time archived at Proposals/CopyrightFormat/Archive.

Open topics for DEP-5

The DEP-5 drivers use this wiki page to manage the "to do" list for it. Please don't edit it in a way that will confuse them. This page is public in the interest of transparency. If you have opinions or suggestions or patches, please bring them up on the debian-project mailing list. Thanks.

Success criteria for DEP-5:

  • people no longer find things to argue about on an ongoing basis

Specific fields that need to be discussed (preferably one at a time on debian-project):

  • add a "Comment:" field?
  • shorten "Format-Specification:" to just "Format:"? (seems to have consensus, patch from Charles Plessy)
  • rename "Maintainer:" to something else? (discussion ongoing, some controversy)
  • rename "Name:" to "Upstream-Name:" (discussion ongoing)

Other problems that need to be addressed:

  • clarify the DEP-5 text to make it clear that using DEP-5 won't require any more precision than a free-form file
  • globbing syntax in the "Files:" section: what syntax? should there be exception?
  • make sure convertability between DEP-5 and SPDX files is possible
  • license shortnames need to be kept compatible with Fedora, SPDX, and other relevant projects (Steve is liasing with them via SPDX)
  • the meaning of "public domain" as a license may need clarification
  • specify compilation copyright using copyright/license fields in the first section (the non-Files one)?

Things that might be good to have at some point, outside of the spec text:

  • lintian warning for malformed DEP-5 files
  • lintian info level message for non-DEP-5 files
  • something to track DEP-5 adoption (perhaps by counting the non-DEP-5 lintian tag on lintian.debian.org?)

Internal workflow things (don't need public discussion):

  • build DEP-5 web page directly from bzr repo, not svn, since the bzr one is the working copy