Bug#911403: Please always include a copyright notice in 'LicenseWithSummary::summary_or_text'

[Felix Lechner]

Hi Dominique,

I am happy to provide patches and merge requests that implement your
idea, but are you sure there are other meaningful consumers of the
summary_or_text method? Your posting [1] restricts uses to Debian, and
a search on codesearch.debian.net shows no other packages that rely on
the current implementation that produces a copyright notice with a
full text but not with a summary. Why is the current implementation
worth keeping? Please forgive me if I appear insistent. It's the only
question I have. Thank you!

Kind regards,
Felix

[1] https://ddumont.wordpress.com/2018/07/07/new-softwarelicensemoreutils-perl-module/


On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 7:22 AM Dominique Dumont <dod at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 15:57:56 +0200 gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> wrote:
> > Dominique, could you look into this patch, please?
>
> yes, sorry for the delay.
>
> I'm not thrilled at the idea of changing the behavior of summary_or_text
> method because the implementation would no longer match its behavior.
>
> Felix, how about un-deprecating debian_text method and putting your code there
> ?
>
> All the best
>
>