On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 08:37:50AM +0100, Rafael Laboissière wrote: > * Simon McVittie <[email protected]> [2025-12-09 16:55]: > > > On Tue, 09 Dec 2025 at 17:30:44 +0100, Rafael Laboissière wrote: > > > I looked at the list of open bugs against base-files and found no > > > one asking for the inclusion of CC license files > > > > If the bugs reassigned from base-files to Policy were marked as > > "affects" base-files, then they'd show up in base-files' BTS page. That > > might be a good way to avoid duplicates being opened. > > > > (This is the same mechanism used when a bug reported against an app > > turns out to be really a bug in some library used by that app.) > > Good suggestion, thanks. > > @sanvila: Would you mind if I issued these commands to the BTS control server? > > [...]
Well, yes, I would mind. Those are really policy proposals which may still get approved or rejected, and until they are approved, they do not really "affect" base-files. That's different from a package which FTBFS because of a bug in a -dev package, because in those cases the build failure is typically an objective fact. Thanks.

