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Re: various packaging issues
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: various packaging issues |
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Thu, 20 Jul 2017 16:37:16 +0200 |
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Dave Love <address@hidden> skribis:
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
[...]
>> Dave Love <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> * I should specify a disjunction of licences like "BSD or GPLv2" rather
>>> than the conjunction, which seems to be represented as a list (though
>>> the doc doesn't say what a list represents). I.e. in Fedora-ish
>>> rpm-speak, I have A or B, rather than C and D. Is that possible?
>>
>> We cannot specify it currently, so what we do is just provide a list of
>> license objects as the ‘license’ field and explain the meaning of the
>> list in a comment.
>>
>> Clearly this can be improved, though we have to pay attention of
>> overengineering in this domain.
>
> It seems to me that you need to be able to treat licences similarly to
> Fedora and Debian. They're not obviously over-engineered, and the
> treatment of licensing must be constrained by legalities, which may or
> may not allow simple engineering :-/.
Sure, agreed.
>> For Python 2 vs. 3, there’s the ‘package-with-python2’ procedure, which
>> you can see in (gnu packages python).
>
> Yes, but that seems to deal with packages just for python modules,
Right, it stops at the first non-python-build-system dependency. That
said, ‘package-mapping’ allows you to do arbitrary graph rewriting, so
that might be what you’re looking for.
Ludo’.
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