[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#915541: Removal of upstream "--will-cite" functionality has been reverted

[Andreas Tille]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 12:08:56PM -0400, Ian Turner wrote:
> My reading of bug 905674 is that the citation notice has been previously
> judged to be incompatible with the DFSG and that's why it was removed.
> 
> Also ultimately Debian developers will have to make their own decision,
> though if you are asking my personal opinion, I think it would be best to
> remove it. I am among those not persuaded by Ole's arguments to the
> contrary, in the specific context of the Debian project.

I'm also not convinced absolutely.  I was just mentioning that upstream
seems to have noticed our (may be other distributions) patch and added
extra comments.  So I felt it appropriate to trigger a short discussion
about it.
 
> One other thing — I note that the fix to 905674 did not remove these command
> line parameters from the manpage, so if you do decide to remove the citation
> notice, I would suggest removing it there as well. I am happy to submit a
> patch if that would be helpful.

Patches are always welcome.

Kind regards

      Andreas. 

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