Re: Cygwin Mailing Lists Disabled? Blocking Package Uploads?

[Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 02/10/2022 19:13, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2022-10-02 05:20, Jon Turney wrote:
>> On 02/10/2022 08:23, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>> Also I don't seem to be able to get on to any mailing list interface 
>>> to re-enable email to perhaps check status via email in public inbox.
>>
>> I don't understand what this means.
> 
> Email retries are often visible under Sourceware Public Inbox e.g.
> 
> https://inbox.sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/202209252042.28PJfcQU021984-28PKg7eC017324-6W6R+pMrZmcI6pMNW8xKTw@public.gmane.org/T/#u

It was unintentional that email bounces were ending up there, and has 
been fixed.

> Any chance of maybe just appending to an mbox cleared after 24 hours old?

It would probably just be easier to arrange for upload reports to go to 
a new mailing list, if we that something that is really wanted...

> I keep having to comment out LICENSE after updates to the latest SPDX 
> keys, as it seems to block uploads!

The current situation is that a 'license:' key is not required in the 
package hint, but if present, it's value must validate.

If you're having problems, please give an example of a something you 
think is a valid SPDX license expression, but isn't accepted.

> What are you using to validate licences in calm - PyPi spdx-tools?

I'm using license_expression

(See https://github.com/nexB/license-expression)

> Finally, do you have any advice on what to do about various US Public 
> Domain sources like tz{code,data} about which SPDX.org is still having 
> discussions?
> I have submitted input asking them to add a tz/tzdb/zoneinfo PD licence 
> instance, and/or also something for other generic US.gov PD sources, 
> like they currently have for NIST, CC, Open Data Commons, Sax, and 
> libselinux.
> But they closed an issue from a US.gov entity asking for a generic 
> US.gov PD licence for their documents!
For our purposes, you may use the string 'Public-Domain', in cases where 
no license applies because the material has been placed in the public 
domain.