On 2026/03/09 16:19, Lydia Sobot wrote:
> >> I'm sure, but I'm more a little bit baffled coming from go-module(5) at
> >> the whole rigmarole of adding the licence comments to crates.inc after
> >> the fact (which seems to require parsing the existing crates.inc,
> >> redirecting the output elsewhere, and then overwriting the file...?)
> >> so I'd love a bit more insight into why it is so different since as much
> >> as I dug at the docs, I couldn't find much of an explanation.
> >
> > because nobody implemented that for go.port.mk yet
> >
> > it would be useful to have otherwise it's not really possibly to check
> > for incompatible mixes of licenses that would mean it's not ok to
> > provide packages
> Makes a lot of sense, thanks, however it would also probably make a bit
> more sense to have the licence comment adding mechanism edit the
> existing .inc file in-place, optionally, or be *somehow* a tiny bit more
> integrated into the gen-{modules,crates} targetThe license information comes from the downloaded files. You need to be able to generate the list of files before you can download them.
