Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 05:30:44PM +0100, Rafael Laboissière wrote:

> Thank you for the reassignment and the explanation.
> 
> I apologize for contributing to the noise. I see that everything is
> explained in the base-files' FAQ. I had overlooked this file. Before filing
> the current bug report, I looked at the list of open bugs against base-files
> and found no one asking for the inclusion of CC license files. The reason is
> simple: previous bugs like this have been reassigned to debian-policy.
> 
> I am wondering how we can avoid “mistakes” like mine in the future. One
> solution would be to file a bug report against base-files with an
> informative title, such as “base-files: NEVER ASK TO INCLUDE NEW COPYRIGHT
> FILES,” tag it “wontfix,” and keep it permanently open. In the body of the
> bug report, explain that the correct package for such requests is
> debian-policy. This is just an idea.

Don't worry too much about that.

I prefer to do what I did here (reassign and explain, which only
happen occasionally) than having a permanently open bug. So, I think
this is not such a big problem and there is little room for
improvement.

Thanks.