On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 02:32:12PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 08:00:21PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > I don't see any objection to symlinking if both packages are created of > > the same sourcepackage, the second one depends on =first-package-version > > and (naturally) have the same copyright. > > It makes it impossible to extract the changelog, copyright file, etc. from > the .deb (because it isn't there).
There are zero reactions on the #78341 [1] proposal to change your policy that covers an adjacent issue (inclusion of the full GPL text in all GPL'ed packages)... > - mdz cu Adrian [1] http://bugs.debian.org/78341 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed