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Package: base-files
Version: 7.2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Hello,
the base-files FAQ refers to a sentence about licenses that does not
appear any more in the Debian policy. The following patch updates that
sentence and suggests the reader to have a look at the discussion of
bug #620674 for more details.
Regards,
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Gioele Barabucci
diff -ur base-files/base-files-7.2/debian/README
base-files.new/base-files-7.2/debian/README
--- base-files/base-files-7.2/debian/README 2012-12-12 11:00:00.000000000
+0000
+++ base-files.new/base-files-7.2/debian/README 2013-09-17 09:01:50.382857000
+0000
@@ -67,13 +67,16 @@
A. I delegate such decisions to the policy group. If you want to
propose a new license you should make a policy proposal to modify the
-paragraph in policy saying "Packages distributed under the UCB BSD
-license, Artistic license, GNU GPL and GNU LGPL should refer to the
-files in /usr/share/common-licenses". The way of doing this is
+paragraph in policy saying "For certain common free software licenses
+([...]), you can just refer to the appropriate file in the
+/usr/share/common-licenses/ directory". The way of doing this is
explained in the debian-policy package. As usual, you should always
take a look at already reported bugs against debian-policy before
submitting a new one.
+Note 1: The discussion in bug #620674 describes under which conditions
+a license can be considered common enough to be included.
+
Q. I upgraded from woody to sarge. Should my system be FHS-compliant now?
A. Achieving FHS compliance by upgrading would be tricky and prone to
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: base-files
Source-Version: 7.4
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
base-files, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Santiago Vila <[email protected]> (supplier of updated base-files package)
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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 18:00:08 +0200
Source: base-files
Binary: base-files
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 7.4
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Santiago Vila <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Santiago Vila <[email protected]>
Description:
base-files - Debian base system miscellaneous files
Closes: 723195 753658 754455
Changes:
base-files (7.4) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Updated FAQ to match current policy wording about common-licenses.
Thanks to Gioele Barabucci for the report. Closes: #723195.
* Moved /etc/os-release to /usr/lib/os-release. Put a symlink pointing to
the new place. Thanks to Marco d'Itri for the report. Closes: #753658.
* Changed BUG_REPORT_URL in os-release to https, as the BTS has moved.
Thanks to Martin Zobel-Helas for the report. Closes: #754455.
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