volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

Miriam Ruiz miriam at debian.org
Wed Dec 3 12:21:57 UTC 2008


2008/12/2 Alexander Reichle-Schmehl <alexander at schmehl.info>:
> Hi!
>
> Miriam Ruiz schrieb:
>
>> Well, not exactly, you cannot easily see the copyright file before
>> installing the package, can you?
>
> You can:
> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/p/ppracer/current/copyright
>
> One could properly add such a feature to aptitude or your favourite
> package manager similar as it can show the changelog of a package.

Sorry, I replied to that in debian-devel, but the CC seems to have been missing

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/12/msg00094.html

> I know. I really don't want to start a flame on this, but you have to
> be online for that, which is not always true, and also, it's not
> really easy to add automatic filtering support to any tools based on
> that.

Thanks anyway :) In fact, including that in aptitude would be a great
idea, I might consider doing that in goplay!

Greetings,
Miry



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