Rejected: Bug#438492: Policies copyright rule doesn't fit empty transitional packages
This proposal requests relaxing Policy's copyright rules to allow for
completely empty packages that contain no files for use in transitions.
The contention was that such packages would then be immediately forgotten
by dpkg rather than lingering on the system.
There is no response in the bug to my request for clarification that this
is what dpkg really does. I vaguely remember there may have been
discussion elsewhere, not copied to the bug, that established that it
doesn't work as well as one would like with such a package. This might be
worth considering if this were a supported dpkg feature, but that needs to
be confirmed first.
In the absence of additional information, I'm rejecting this proposal.
This is a soft rejection, meaning that if someone feels strongly about
this proposal and wants to step forward to champion it again, I'd be
willing to reopen the bug.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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