[Pkg-octave-devel] Filing ITPs for the octave-forge pkgs

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-03-03 07:30]:

> On 03/03/08 02:52 +0100, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote:
> > One thing, instead of deleting the COPYING file from the packinfo
> > directory like I did to begin with (and is in the octave-pkg-dev.mk
> > file at the moment) should we perhaps move it to
> > /usr/share/doc/octave-$pkgname ???
> 
> Is that a license file, i.e. something like the GPL itself? Then no,
> such things are dropped and replaced by a hint to the respective license
> in /usr/share/common-license. There's no need to ship 40 copies of the
> GPL.

Besides, if one add such a COPYING to the package, then Lintian complains
with the extra-license-file warning.

-- 
Rafael