Re: Let’s turn DEP5 into something useful
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:06:31AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> Requiring any details of precisely which files are affected makes the
> whole thing impossible because that requires some form of mass-update
> (or at least mass check of individual files) at every upstream release.
> Let's just drop the whole idea for Files: - if some packages find it
> useful, then the Files: field can be optional but it cannot be sensible
> to mandate it for large upstream teams.
Plus, the per-file copyright information doesn't reflect anything for
binary packages, since they refer to source files. And per source file
licensing information is available in the source tarball, where the
copyright file has no use.
Mike
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