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 (natur
* Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030521 02:35]:
> On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 08:00:21PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > The policy vetoe to symlinking intends (in my interpretation) two
> > goals. One is to ensure that the licences don't "change" unintendidly.
> > This could e.g. happen if there is a
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:02:01AM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 08:00:21PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > The policy vetoe to symlinking intends (in my interpretation) two
> > goals. One is to ensure that the licences don't "change" unintendidly.
> > This could e.g. happen if
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 08:00:21PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> The policy vetoe to symlinking intends (in my interpretation) two
> goals. One is to ensure that the licences don't "change" unintendidly.
> This could e.g. happen if there is a global file called GPL, the
> packages link there copyri
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 chan
* Adrian Bunk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030520 19:20]:
> Several packages in Debian depend on another package and symlink their
> /usr/share/doc/ to the directory of this other package.
>
> Section 13.5. of your policy says:
>
> <-- snip -->
>
> 13.5. Copyright information
> --
> Unless someone can convince me that my interpretation of your policy is
> wrong I'll start filing bugs against packages that symlink
> /usr/share/doc/ to the directory of another package.
Policy 13.3 says:
...
`/usr/share/doc/' may be a symbolic link to another
directory in `/usr/sha
Several packages in Debian depend on another package and symlink their
/usr/share/doc/ to the directory of this other package.
Section 13.5. of your policy says:
<-- snip -->
13.5. Copyright information
---
Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of
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