Christian Surchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 04:29:18PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > > I think it would be clearer, and not *that* much of a problem, if we > > added a dependency on base-files. > > bash-2.03$ apt-cache show base-files > Package: base-files > Essential: yes > Priority: required > > The question of getting it or distributing it is different from debian > requirement or suggestion, IMHO.
All that doesn't actually make someone (using alien on a different system, say) do it. Basically, I think we'd be doing the Right Thing better if we tried to take steps to tell a user "you are supposed to get THIS if you want THAT", where THAT is, say, fileutils, and THIS is base-files. We distribute Debian packages not just for Debian, as far as legality is concerned; we distribute them to everyone. I like our current scheme of distributing and dealing with licenses; I don't want to have to add copies into every .deb. But I do think it's reasonable to make explicit in some way the need to distribute the license along with the package.
