Bug#1135097: Please extent list of licenses named in chapter 12.5

Holger Levsen <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:12:37 +0000

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On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 10:09:31AM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote:
> There is a systematic way we handle this: it has to be shown that the
> license text is so common that deduplicating it in this way will save
> disk space on the vast majority of Debian systems.  I doubt that all
> those licenses meet that criterion.

i'm surprised that diskspace (in base-files) is even a factor here,
we're talking about kilobytes or maybe a few megabytes.

i'd value maintainer time & ease much higher than a few hundred
or thousand kilobyes of diskspace.

-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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