On 8 August 2010 16:40, Steven Monai wrote: > Practically speaking, yes, it is true that the subpackages don't really > require the text docs provided by the libtorrent package to correctly > perform their function. However, the entire raison d'etre for the > libtorrent package seems to be to provide the text docs that upstream > intends to accompany the library. > > So personally, I would make all of libtorrent's subpackages require > libtorrent, so that the upstream text docs (including the COPYING file, > which contains the GPL license notice) are always installed when any of > the subpackages are installed. It is ultimately the packager's decision > about how best to distribute the GPL notice with the software. In this > case, making the subpackages require the libtorrent package would be an > easy way to accomplish that, but it's certainly not the only way. It's > really up to Chris to decide.
Valid point. I'll change the hint files for libtorrent and libsigc++ and upload new versions shortly. Cheers! Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org http://www.google.com/profiles/ir0nh34d
