2. Why would policy say should instead of must, if we then do not
allow for exceptions? (packages generating copyright file at build time).
This is not my area, but why should there be an exception?
To allow for the file to be automatically generated at build time,
which in turn avoids
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015, Santiago Vila wrote:
2. Why would policy say should instead of must, if we then do not
allow for exceptions? (packages generating copyright file at build time).
This is not my area, but why should there be an exception?
To allow for the file to be automatically
Thorsten Alteholz alteh...@debian.org writes:
But what shall be the source for this generation?
The copyright information that are created by upstream are most of the
time not really up to date.
The maintainer can add overrides or patch the upstream files to make them
more accurate in this
On 16/08/15 17:23, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015, Santiago Vila wrote:
To allow for the file to be automatically generated at build time,
which in turn avoids useless duplication of license text in the source
package.
But what shall be the source for this generation?
I've
On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 at 18:41:08 +0100, Tony Houghton wrote:
The Creative Commons licenses are quite popular for non-code files and
at least some of them are acknowledged to be DFSG-compatible since 3.0.
https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses only explicitly lists CC-BY-SA,
but I believe at least
[ Dropping CC for Simon and Russ because I know for sure they are in
-policy ].
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 06:23:52PM +0200, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
But what shall be the source for this generation?
I was basically doing cat debian/copyright.in LICENSE
Not anything AI-style, and not trying to
Package: debian-policy
User-level applications should not use sockets below $HOME by default: the
filesystem used for $HOME might not support them, as is the case for NFS
or OpenAFS.
They should use XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (if set) or as a fallback a temporary
directory below /tmp; any location below
2015-08-16 21:33:37 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt:
Package: debian-policy
User-level applications should not use sockets below $HOME by default: the
filesystem used for $HOME might not support them, as is the case for NFS
or OpenAFS.
[...]
I don't know about OpenAFS, but sockets are supported on
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