On pe, 2010-08-13 at 11:39 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > However, there is a big, big problem with DEP-5, and it is named > /usr/share/doc/chromium-browser/copyright. It is 1.3 mb in size (out of > a 25 mb package), and completely unreadable and unusable. It appears to > be machine generated, and is full of redundancies and useless > information. (So I am very skeptical of claims that we should > machine-generate copyright files.) It could probably be replaced by a > hand-written file of about 20k. IMHO, we should not allow such > unnecessarily complicated copyright files in Debian.
Ouch. Yes, the chromium-browser debian/copyright file does not seem sane to me. If an automatic tool is used to generate it, it should take care to minimize the size, right now there is a lot of duplication there, and that's silly. I doubt that is fixable in DEP-5, though. If they didn't use a machine-parseable format, the could just generate a similar free-form file, with the same amount of repetition. (The root problem seems to me to be that chromium-browser is an aggregation of a large amount of code from other projects. I don't think that's a sustainable way of developing software in the long run. It might work for one project at a time, but it harms the ecosystem.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1281727355.2017.47.ca...@havelock
