Bug#368130: marked as done (grep "59 Temple St" /usr/bin/*)
Your message dated Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:09:45 -0500
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and subject line This is not appropriate for policy
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.
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Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist
Many programs in /usr/bin have GNU's _old_ address hardwired in:
$ cd /usr/bin
$ fgrep --files-with-matches '59 Temple Place' *|wc -l
179
$ fgrep --files-with-matches Temple *|wc -l
187
And that's just on my machine.
$ fgrep --files-with-matches Mass *|wc -l
40 #An even older address, Mass Ave.
It must be because policy doesn't say anything about sticking
copyright notices in the /usr/[s]bin/file, only about
/usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright .
Therefore policy should say not to put copyright notices in
/usr/[s]bin/* or at least not office addresses that will get stale.
Instead when one does
$ some_program --view-copyright
the output should say to see /usr/share/common-licenses/...
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Hi,
An old, or wrong, address in the script is a bug, or at least a
wishlist for updating. The bugs should be fixed, and should not need
policy to say "do not have bugs in your packages".
manoj
--
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
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