On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:37:49 +0100 Robert Millan <r...@aybabtu.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 12:28:03AM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote: > > http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00351 partly fixed upstream, > > forwarded http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559443 > > Files without explicit copyright notice aren't necessarily > unlicensed. It is generally understood that the global license > notice applies to them. True (I titled this bug badly, it should have mentioned the possibility of mame copying). http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559443#10 means this will be fixed 'in the future' at least. > It's good practice to put a license notice in each file though. > > > http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00354 not sure if debian would > > consider this a bug. > > They wouldn't. Actually I'm not even sure it's a bug myself. The > person running the non-free software that could connect to this isn't > necessarily the same who runs the server. In fact, they might not > even know each other. Would you say its a situation similar to samba? > > http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00355 not sure if debian would > > consider this a bug. > > They consider this a bug for Recommends but not for Suggests. I > think our easiest approach would be to remove those suggests using > archive overrides rather than removing the affected package. > > So we basically have two options: > > - Adjust overrides manually for each package that is found to do > this. > > - Remove Suggests field altogether. It wasn't that useful anyway. > > I tend to favour the second due scarcity of manpower. I'm familiar with overrides, but not sure how one would remove the suggests fields - rebuild packages? kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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