On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:45:55PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Given that many people have already said that it is, perhaps this is the > point where you should just accept that they're not lying to you and > instead you're suffering from a failure of imagination? > > I know from personal experience (having done this as an experiment for > several packages of mine, including some fairly large ones) that it is > indeed quite a bit of extra effort. This is for several reasons, > including the simple fact that I read a lot faster than I type.
Sure, I accept your points, and I apologise for my sloppy wording. Firmly in my mind is the cost/benefit of this extra effort. If we succeed in integrating debian/copyright checks into lintian, or dpkg and it's front-ends, it seems reasonable to imagine that this effort would be a good trade-off. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
