Re: devscripts copyright file

2015-12-06 Thread Nicholas Bamber
James, It happens that myself, Osamu and Dominique have all looked into the issue of how to support and maintain the new copyright format. It's presumably not a coincidence then that we all found ourselves contributing to devscripts. I am actually feeling quite ambivalent about my tool. On

Re: devscripts copyright file

2015-12-05 Thread James McCoy
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 08:51:13PM +, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > James, > > I have been looking into the debian/copyright file (which happens to be > raising a lintian error). Perhaps you mean “happens to be raising a pedantic severity diagnostic”? > I have a tool, license-reconcile,

Re: devscripts copyright file

2015-11-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 03:58:16PM +, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > Osamu, > Answers below > > On 19. 11. 15 14:47, Osamu Aoki wrote: > >But it helps to keep package up-to-date. > >Interesting. Where is it? > https://packages.debian.org/sid/main/license-reconcile > >(My "debmake -k"

Re: devscripts copyright file

2015-11-20 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Osamu, Okay I've installed it and had a quick look. It looks like a more generalised version of dh-make-perl. I'll give it a go when I next try packaging a non-Perl package. Unfortunately I am pretty sure I am at the limit of what I can contribute to Debian. On 20. 11. 15 16:40, Osamu Aoki

Re: devscripts copyright file

2015-11-19 Thread Nicholas Bamber
Osamu, Answers below On 19. 11. 15 14:47, Osamu Aoki wrote: But it helps to keep package up-to-date. Interesting. Where is it? https://packages.debian.org/sid/main/license-reconcile (My "debmake -k" does similar.) Unlike you, my script (debmake-cc) bunch year into a single

devscripts copyright file

2015-11-18 Thread Nicholas Bamber
James, I have been looking into the debian/copyright file (which happens to be raising a lintian error). I have a tool, license-reconcile, which I admit is a very immature piece of code, that attempts to reconcile debian/copyright to the source code. This can I think be used to get this