Re: Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2008-03-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:51:24 -0600, Gunnar Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Of course, I'm playing with the numbers. There are still smaller machines, there are the embedded-minded people, and of course, there would be no sane way to verify the GPL3 was the same GPL3 all over if we were to kill

Re: Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2008-03-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Manoj Srivastava dijo [Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:16:17AM -0500]: Of course, I'm playing with the numbers. There are still smaller machines, there are the embedded-minded people, and of course, there would be no sane way to verify the GPL3 was the same GPL3 all over if we were to kill

Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2008-03-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Gunnar Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: _One_ thing that makes me favor common-licenses is being able to do wide checks to count the number of packages saying to adhere to a given license - As I said, nothing guarantees that the COPYING file in my (upstream) package is the same as in yours (for

Re: Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2008-03-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:47:52 -0600, Gunnar Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Manoj Srivastava dijo [Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:16:17AM -0500]: Of course, I'm playing with the numbers. There are still smaller machines, there are the embedded-minded people, and of course, there would be no sane way

Bug#473019: debian-policy: clarification needed for local builtin exception for /bin/sh

2008-03-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.3.0 Severity: normal Tags: patch The scripts section of chapter 10 is somewhat ambiguous about whether declaring multiple local variables is acceptable or not: file:///usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-files.html#s-scripts For example, is the

Bug#473019: debian-policy: clarification needed for local builtin exception for /bin/sh

2008-03-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Daniel Kahn Gillmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.3.0 Severity: normal Tags: patch The scripts section of chapter 10 is somewhat ambiguous about whether declaring multiple local variables is acceptable or not:

Bug#473019: debian-policy: clarification needed for local builtin exception for /bin/sh

2008-03-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Thanks for the quick response, Russ. On Thu 2008-03-27 16:16:31 -0400, Russ Allbery wrote: The intention when I originally wrote the text was to not allow declaring multiple variables with one local line, since at the time I was told that some shells didn't support this. I think your first