Hi Dominique,

I am fine with your suggestion. We will wait for your implementation.
Thank you for providing this package!

Kind regards,
Felix

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 9:44 AM Dominique Dumont <d...@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Monday, 29 October 2018 16:51:45 CET you wrote:
> > I am happy to provide patches and merge requests that implement your
> > idea,
>
> Thanks. But the change is trivial. I can do it on my side.
>
> We just need to find a common ground that allow fixing #905614
>
> > but are you sure there are other meaningful consumers of the
> > summary_or_text method?
>
> Absolutely not. But keeping backward compat with already published modules is
> one of the best values of the Perl community. I intend to keep that promise as
> much as possible
>
> > Your posting [1] restricts uses to Debian
>
> Debian and its 100+ derivates.
>
> > , and
> > a search on codesearch.debian.net shows no other packages that rely on
> > the current implementation that produces a copyright notice with a
> > full text but not with a summary. Why is the current implementation
> > worth keeping?
>
> Because we can't be sure that nobody will be impacted. A user may be relying
> on summary_or_text but has not (or will not) publish her or his code.
>
> > Please forgive me if I appear insistent. It's the only
> > question I have.
>
> No problem. You're right to challenge what is not clear :-)
>
> All the best
>
>
>
>

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