From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Bavier Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/12] import: utils: Symbols from 'license->symbol' have a license: prefix. Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:07:48 -0500 Message-ID: <20160830140748.085c3492@openmailbox.org> References: <20160805183730.19049-2-david@craven.ch> <87k2f2ognn.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51471) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beoOC-0005Iy-Uy for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:08:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beoO9-0007vI-2P for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:08:03 -0400 Received: from smtp8.openmailbox.org ([62.4.1.42]:39135) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1beoO8-0007ue-Ox for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:08:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: David Craven Cc: guix-devel On Sat, 27 Aug 2016 10:31:44 +0200 David Craven wrote: > > Is the purpose of this patch to make importers return licenses with this > > prefix or is there another use case? > > Yes that's the intention. I was only thinking about the python > importer, but this will affect all importers. > I don't think this needs to happen. Whether or not the symbol in the 'license' field of a package needs the 'license:' prefix depends on the module where the package definition is placed. I'm not convinced that globally applying the prefix is useful. `~Eric