debian/copyright syntax (was Re: Joining pkg-vim-maintainers)

[James McCoy]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 01:22:00PM +0100, David Rabel wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> On 05.01.2018 06:25, James McCoy wrote:
> > 
> > Other than that, I'm intending on extracting the Debian related runtime
> > files to their own project (in the newly created pkg-vim-team group) on
> > salsa.d.o for easier maintenance.  Since they're included with Vim
> > already, they wouldn't need a new package.  As part of that, it would be
> > good to implement the requested[1] syntax highlighting for the
> > debian/copyright format.
> > 
> > [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/869965
> > 
> 
> So I spent a few hours in the last days to gain some basic knowledge
> about vimscript and syntax highlighting.. :)
> 
> Do I get that right?

Yes.  The proposed script in the bug is probably a good starting point.
My suggested improvements shouldn't be a blocker.  If you have
time/interest to look into those suggestions, please do.

> The debian-related runtime files are maintained by
> this team at the vim-debian repo at salsa and are somehow handed over to
> upstream who then includes them into the official vim releases and this
> way they get back to us with the whole vim source code?
> So the files at vim-debian repo are always a little bit newer than the
> files at vim repo?

Yes, I periodically send updates to Bram.  I had been thinking of having
a "sent-upstream" tag or something to keep track of what was last sent
to him.

> I'd like to help here, it seems "not too complicated" for a start. Since
> Chris already provides a patch it would be 1) testing it, 2) adding it
> to the vim-debian repo 3) keeping an eye on it and improving it from
> time to time, for example with your comments in the bug report.

Sounds good.  The filetype.vim changes aren't something we need to
include in the repo.  That can be mentioned to Bram when the new file is
sent to him.

Cheers,
-- 
James
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