On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:59 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>
> I have a question:
>
> Suppose there is an application that I want to package that contains
> the Brazilian flag only and no other flags. Afaik, the Brazilian flag
> is not illegal in any country in the world. Do I still have to make a
> subpackage for this one flag?
Yes you would. The only way to be "neutral" is to treat all flags the
same. Any different treatment would amount to preferential treatment
which is exactly what we're trying to avoid.
Wouldn't it be better if we apply this policy only to those packages
that contain "unsafe" flags? I mean, if the tarball contains an
"unsafe" flag, make a flags subpackage with all the flags. On the
other hand, if all the flags in the tarball are "safe" as in my above
example, I don't see the rationale for spending the time and the
effort of creating a subpackage.
Orcan