[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files



Graham Wilson <graham@mknod.org> schrieb:

> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:42:11AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
>> sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx (Brian M. Carlson) schrieb:
>> > Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
>> >> The number of these that relate to frozen packages scares me. You are
>> >> likely to create a good deal of work for the release management team.
>> >> :-( In future, please perform such widespread audits *before* base
>> >> system freezes, not *during* them.
>> >
>> > Sorry, I found one package and then wondered how many other packages
>> > fell into the same category.  Unfortunately, it turned out to be a
>> > lot.
>> 
>> Are you joking? Everybody knows that there are lots of documents under
>> GFDL in Debian. If this weren't the case, and there were only 5 or 10
>> packages, we would simply have fixed those bugs half a year ago.
>
> Brian was talking about packages that don't have correct copyright
> information, not packages that have files licenses under the FDL.

Did he? Colin's remark was general (it was under the list of candidate
files, which were not grouped by the bug "subtypes").

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer



Reply to: