Package: base-files Version: 9.6 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
The machine-readable debian/copyright file format has a list [1] of licenses with a "short name" so that code under those licenses is easy to identify. It also insists that the full license text be included in debian/copyright anyway unless the text is in /usr/share/common-licenses. However, most of the licenses on the list aren't in /usr/share/common-licenses, so debian/copyright becomes huge, and you have to format the license text specially to match the format of debian/copyright. Please could the list of licenses in /usr/share/common-licenses be extended to match all the short license names (if possible)? Thanks, George Bateman. [1][https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#license-specification] -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages base-files depends on: ii gawk [awk] 1:4.1.3+dfsg-0.1 ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-17 base-files recommends no packages. base-files suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
