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

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 08:37:50AM +0100, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> * Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> [2025-12-09 16:55]:
> 
> > On Tue, 09 Dec 2025 at 17:30:44 +0100, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> > > I looked at the list of open bugs against base-files and found no
> > > one asking for the inclusion of CC license files
> > 
> > If the bugs reassigned from base-files to Policy were marked as
> > "affects" base-files, then they'd show up in base-files' BTS page. That
> > might be a good way to avoid duplicates being opened.
> > 
> > (This is the same mechanism used when a bug reported against an app
> > turns out to be really a bug in some library used by that app.)
> 
> Good suggestion, thanks.
> 
> @sanvila: Would you mind if I issued these commands to the BTS control server?
> 
> [...]

Well, yes, I would mind.

Those are really policy proposals which may still get approved or
rejected, and until they are approved, they do not really "affect"
base-files.

That's different from a package which FTBFS because of a bug in a -dev
package, because in those cases the build failure is typically an
objective fact.

Thanks.