Hi, On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 14:53, mushi <[email protected]> wrote: > When you examine not installed package with aptitude or apt-get, package > information doesn't contain package's license. > With 'Section' item you can clarify whether package is contributed or > non-free, but a separated 'License' item would be eligible in terms of > Debian way.
Adding new fields in the Packages file(s) is something to be done by the ftp-masters, so if you really want that, reassign to "ftp.debian.org" (pseudo-)package, but i don't see what this field should indicate: As you already said, the "freeness-level" is already in the section, for most packages you can't be more specific than that in a single field as very few packages really have only one single license. So you want to look at the copyright file of the package [0] and be happy about DEP5 [1]. What i could imagine is a commandline interface similar to 'apt-get changelog' for copyright, through… (and i am treating this bugreport as requesting this for now) Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] /usr/share/doc/pkg/copyright if 'pkg' is installed or online at http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/{main,contrib/nonfree}/{first-letter-of-srcpkg}/{srcpkg}/current/copyright [1] http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
