r123 - /web/deps/dep5.mdwn
vorlon at users.alioth.debian.org
vorlon at users.alioth.debian.org
Thu Dec 17 15:24:31 UTC 2009
Author: vorlon
Date: Thu Dec 17 15:24:30 2009
New Revision: 123
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/dep/?sc=1&rev=123
Log:
clean up some factual errors in the introduction
Modified:
web/deps/dep5.mdwn
Modified: web/deps/dep5.mdwn
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?rev=123&op=diff
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--- web/deps/dep5.mdwn (original)
+++ web/deps/dep5.mdwn Thu Dec 17 15:24:30 2009
@@ -19,10 +19,11 @@
# Introduction
-This is a proposal to make `debian/copyright` machine-interpretable.
-This file is one of the most important files in Debian packaging, yet
-its existing format is vague and varies tremendously across packages,
-making it difficult to automatically parse.
+This is a proposal to make `debian/copyright` machine-interpretable.
+This file is one of the most important files in Debian packaging, yet
+there is currently no standard format defined for it and its contents
+vary tremendously across packages, making it difficult to automatically
+extract licensing information.
This is not a proposal to change the policy in the short term.
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