On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 07:46:58AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-01-21 13:44:28, schrieb Russ Allbery: > > > The error message isn't about its presence in the source package but > > rather its presence in the generated binary package. In general, in > > Debian, you should never install additional copies of the GPL, the LGPL, > > or other common licenses; instead, just refer the user to the copy that > > already ships with Debian in /usr/share/common-licenses. > > If I find Packages which include the Licence, I should file a bugreport > against the package? If YES, I will file immediatly arround 30 of them. Thats not the right way of doing it :/ This is "mass bug filing" and riles people sometimes :)
Lintian is the "source" of being able to find the problems, and lintian is already run automatically; check the p.q.debian.org site and also http://lintian.debian.org/reports/tags.html and, in particular, extra-license-file (163 packages, 308 tags): http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Textra-license-file.html. So it is a waste of time and bugs to file them, since interested maintainers can get this information anyway, even if they don't run lintian themselves. There's a wishlist bug, I believe, about showing the count of lintian [I] and [W] outputs directly on the QA page; oh here it is <http://bugs.debian.org/243729>. -- Clear skies, Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
