Bug#1135097: Bug#885698: What licenses should be included in /usr/share/common-licenses?

Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:26:18 +0100

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Holger Levsen [28/Apr 10:08am GMT] wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 10:20:16AM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> I think that the "at least 100 packages" part of this proposal is too
>> low a bar.
>
> why do you think so? I think 100 is quite a high bar already.
> (assuming we talk source packages.)

Those 100 could easily be packages that most systems don't have
installed -- or, in particular, that systems that are trying to be
really small almost never have installed.

Really we need to hear from the people who are trying to make the
minimal install of Debian small.  That's not me.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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