Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (267 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxx>]

Am Freitag, 2. Dezember 2011, 13:40:23 schrieb Richard Guenther:
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 2. Dezember 2011, 11:47:31 schrieb Richard Guenther:
> > > > > This avoids the doubt weather a license string of some sub
> > > > > package
> > > > > was forgotten or intentionally implicit. Coolos new logic
> > > > > appears
> > > > > to actually create more of this doubt, if I get it right.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, that's a good suggestion as well.
> > >
> > > Btw, a general rule to follow should be that the formatter should
> > > only do transformations that a subsequent changed formatter can
> > > undo.
> > > Thus, throwing away information isn't ok - like in this case.
> >
> > As I only remove duplicated information that can be readded without a
> > problem I don't see a problem.
>
> You don't distinguish between a deliberate duplicate (same) license
> and an errorneously omitted (different) one.  If you re-add the
> "duplicates" you loose the "errorneously omitted different" license state.
The old autobuild checkin formater added the main license as duplicate
all around, so this was already the case.

So Jürgen's policy is better: only if one subpackage has a different license,
we require the main license in all subpackages with that license too.

Greetings, Stephan

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