Hello, On Wed 10 Dec 2025 at 10:42am +01, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 05:30:44PM +0100, Rafael Laboissière wrote: >> 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. > > I would not mind a *single* bug in debian-policy which affects base-files, > using a little bit more friendly subject, for example: > > debian-policy: PLEASE REPORT BUGS ABOUT COMMON-LICENSES TO DEBIAN-POLICY > > I leave the details to the policy group if they agree. > > (So, the advertisement is formally done by debian-policy, it would > show in the base-files bug page, and it would be a single bug). I don't mind such a bug permanently existing against debian-policy if someone would like to set it up. -- Sean Whitton
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