I have an interesting (to me anyways) question. Should LICENSE changes require a revision bump?
It kinda seems to me the answer should be yes. I don't know if any PM
currently implements LICENSE filtering so there may not be any
technical reason for it yet. And so I guess it comes down to a
philosophical question - what determines the licence(s) a currently
installed package is covered by? My thought is that this would be the
value in /var/db/pkg/${P}/LICENSE, being the LICENSE value at install
time, and therefore a change in the tree requires reinstallation to
change that value.
On the other hand, it also seems completely ridiculous from a practical
POV to have to wait 30 days (and waste arch team resources) to fix an
incorrect licence on a stable package.
Thoughts?
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