On Monday, 29 October 2018 16:51:45 CET you wrote: > I am happy to provide patches and merge requests that implement your > idea,
Thanks. But the change is trivial. I can do it on my side. We just need to find a common ground that allow fixing #905614 > but are you sure there are other meaningful consumers of the > summary_or_text method? Absolutely not. But keeping backward compat with already published modules is one of the best values of the Perl community. I intend to keep that promise as much as possible > Your posting [1] restricts uses to Debian Debian and its 100+ derivates. > , and > a search on codesearch.debian.net shows no other packages that rely on > the current implementation that produces a copyright notice with a > full text but not with a summary. Why is the current implementation > worth keeping? Because we can't be sure that nobody will be impacted. A user may be relying on summary_or_text but has not (or will not) publish her or his code. > Please forgive me if I appear insistent. It's the only > question I have. No problem. You're right to challenge what is not clear :-) All the best