Bug#885698: What licenses should be included in /usr/share/common-licenses?

Guillem Jover <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:09:54 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.policy
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On Mon, 2026-04-27 at 14:52:41 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Apr 27, Mechtilde Stehmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The issue at hand is the inclusion of additional license texts in the
> > base-files package.

> I think that there was a consensus back then and there is still one now.
> Do you volunteer to NMU base-files, if the maintainer is not
> interested in working on this?

Uh, what? I'm pretty certain Santiago would be happy to update
base-files *once* debian-policy has been updated, but certainly not
before. So instead of unnecessarily throwing shade, perhaps get
debian-policy updated first?

Thanks,
Guillem