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

[Dominique Dumont]

On Monday, 29 October 2018 16:51:45 CET you wrote:
> I am happy to provide patches and merge requests that implement your
> idea, 

Thanks. But the change is trivial. I can do it on my side. 

We just need to find a common ground that allow fixing #905614 

> but are you sure there are other meaningful consumers of the
> summary_or_text method? 

Absolutely not. But keeping backward compat with already published modules is 
one of the best values of the Perl community. I intend to keep that promise as 
much as possible

> Your posting [1] restricts uses to Debian

Debian and its 100+ derivates. 

> , 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? 

Because we can't be sure that nobody will be impacted. A user may be relying 
on summary_or_text but has not (or will not) publish her or his code.

> Please forgive me if I appear insistent. It's the only
> question I have.

No problem. You're right to challenge what is not clear :-)

All the best