[Fedora-packaging] Re: Packaging of license file in case of extracted sources
On 04/20/2009 06:28 AM, Mattias Ellert wrote:
The question at hand is not whether the tarball contains inlined or
detached licenses. The question is which tarball the guideline refers
to. If it is the large upstream installer it does include a detached
license file. If it is the extracted tarball it does not.
I want to make clear that the disagreement does not depend on whether
we extract source tarballs from a larger tree or not.
Let me talk over a toy example to demonstrate the situation:
Suppose I am packaging MyApp. MyApp source tree has this layout:
src/A/
src/B/
I am making MyApp-A and MyApp-B subpackages. Now there is a COPYING
file under src/A/
Should I put that COPYING file into the %doc of the MyApp-B package, if
- B requires A?
- B doesn't require A?
Let's make this clear, so that we can apply the general consensus on
the new packages.
Orcan