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Bug#189422: Hijacking bugs



clone 189422 -1
reassign 189422 texinfo
severity 189422 serious
submitter -1 joy@srce.hr
# Feel free to "block 189422 with -1",
# but the original bug is still severity serious.
thanks, control, and have a nice day

I would appreciate if you are going to change the topic of a bug, that
you clone it and mark the submitter as yourself.  I disagree with the
current title of the bug, because:

0. If the copyright file can be neither compressed nor a symbolic link,
then what makes info files special?
1. To be on par with the copyright file, the info files would have to be
uncompressed, which would be a violation of another section of Debian
Policy.
2. It will lead to exceptions where we will not have all the copyright
information in one place, which is detrimental to users, developers, and
DDs.  AIUI, the copyright file is so that we have exactly that
information.

Imagine my surprise when I looked at the bugs I had submitted and found
that I claimed we should "allow pointers to info docs for licenses like
GFDL that apply to them", when I didn't remember espousing that position
at all.

In future, please clone bugs where the bug in question is not actually
in some other package (it is not here) or when the proposed solution
implies a change with which the original submitter may not agree (a
simple email would have told you that).

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