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Re: Please allow base-files 4.0.4 in testing



* Russ Allbery [Fri, 30 May 2008 10:52:25 -0700]:

> Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
> > On Fri, 30 May 2008, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> >> * Santiago Vila [Fri, 30 May 2008 11:12:16 +0200]:

> >> Hello, Santiago.

> >> > base-files (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low

> >> >   * Added Apache-2.0 to common-licenses. Closes: #471736.
> >> >     Retrieved from http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt.

> >> I don't see the Apache license mentioned in the current Policy document
> >> (3.7.3.0). #291460 is marked as pending for a while, but is not closed.
> >> Maybe the editors forgot to include the change in their upload?

> > Oops! My fault, indeed. I added the license because of this:

> > http://bugs.debian.org/471736#49

> > i.e. it was "approved". Should I remove the license again? I hope not.

> No, please keep it.  base-files can add licenses before Policy (that's
> really the right order in which to do it), and this *will* be in Policy
> for lenny.  Policy isn't frozen itself, since it's just a text document,
> and there will be at least one more upload before lenny that includes this
> change.

Ok, base-files 4.0.4 unblocked. (Doing now rather than when policy gets
updated/uploaded, because packages could start to refer to the new
license already.)

Cheers,

-- 
Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer                                  adeodato at debian.org
 
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