By January 2012, there are still more than 7,000 binary packages whose copyright file refers to a versionless symlink, according to the Lintian page http://lintian.debian.org/tags/copyright-refers-to-symlink-license.html
Le Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 11:20:40AM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > For those listening on, to spare you the trouble of going to look, here's > the current Policy text: > > Packages distributed under the UCB BSD license, the Artistic license, > the GNU GPL (version 2 or 3), the GNU LGPL (versions 2, 2.1, or 3), > and the GNU FDL (version 1.2) should refer to the corresponding files > under `/usr/share/common-licenses',[1] rather than quoting them in the > copyright file. > > If you refer to the corresponding file through a symlink, this is still > satisfied. … > I personally don't believe the unversioned links should ever be used, but > that's a separate matter. The practice is intentionally not mentioned > because I don't believe it should be recommended, but maintainers who want > to use them can work it out for themselves. Short review four years after. A new tag was added to Lintian in 2009, copyright-refers-to-symlink-license (pedantic). However, despite this there are still thousands of packages whose copyright file refers to a versionless symlink in 2012. (The goal of this email is to add a summary to the bug report, where the year is mentionned so that one does not waste time looking again in the short term.) Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
