Subject: Re: [bug#30274] [PATCH 00/21] gnu: Add licensecheck (license checker for source files).

From: Marius Bakke <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 11:51:49 +0100

Oleg Pykhalov <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hello Marius,
>
> Thank you for review!
>
> Marius Bakke <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Regarding the -2 variants, I assume other packages fail to build if they
>> are simply updated?
>
> Probably, if packages hadn't been built with “-2 variants” by upstream.
>
>> It would be good to have comments about it in the code.
>
> To have comments in the “-2 variants” code or in the “other packages” code?

In the -2 variants.  E.g. "Some packages don't yet work with this
newer version of FOO, so we package it separately".