[Aptitude-devel] Bug#492432: aptitude: fetch and display copyright (like changelog)

[Mike Gerow]

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 02:35:04PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> Ideally, this would be implemented in libapt directly. It nowadays
> sports a pkgAcqChangelog which deals with most of the complexity around
> changelogs including the constructing the URI (as different archives
> have different storage places and such) [which from a casual look seem
> not to be used by aptitude which constructs the URI on its own (for
> Debian only)].
> 
> A good way to deal with this hence might perhaps be to fully adopt
> pkgAcqChangelog in aptitude, mostly copy pkgAcqChangelog and paste as
> pkgAcqCopyright in libapt (src:apt) and copy&paste the changelog-code in
> aptitude to deal with copyright [Bonuspoints if abstraction is used
> instead of copy&paste].
Alright, that makes a lot of sense. I'll take a look at libapt and see if
there's a nice way add support for fetching the copyright info without too much
copy/pasting.

> I can't speak for the aptitude team of course, but at least for the apt
> team and I would be happy to help on the apt side. If you are interested
> feel free to ask me (DonKult), us (deity at lists.debian.org) and/or on IRC
> (#debian-apt – where apt & aptitude people hang out together)!
I'll definitely drop the irc by when I inevitably have qestions. Thanks!

-- 
Mike Gerow
gerow at mgerow.com
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