On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 02:35:04PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > Ideally, this would be implemented in libapt directly. It nowadays > sports a pkgAcqChangelog which deals with most of the complexity around > changelogs including the constructing the URI (as different archives > have different storage places and such) [which from a casual look seem > not to be used by aptitude which constructs the URI on its own (for > Debian only)]. > > A good way to deal with this hence might perhaps be to fully adopt > pkgAcqChangelog in aptitude, mostly copy pkgAcqChangelog and paste as > pkgAcqCopyright in libapt (src:apt) and copy&paste the changelog-code in > aptitude to deal with copyright [Bonuspoints if abstraction is used > instead of copy&paste]. Alright, that makes a lot of sense. I'll take a look at libapt and see if there's a nice way add support for fetching the copyright info without too much copy/pasting.
> I can't speak for the aptitude team of course, but at least for the apt > team and I would be happy to help on the apt side. If you are interested > feel free to ask me (DonKult), us (de...@lists.debian.org) and/or on IRC > (#debian-apt – where apt & aptitude people hang out together)! I'll definitely drop the irc by when I inevitably have qestions. Thanks! -- Mike Gerow ge...@mgerow.com
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