Quoting Alex (2026-05-17 12:13:37) > Under what circumstances does spdx2debian "invent" the licensing for > d/copyright? When the Debian source package is not itself REUSE > compliant, [spdx2debian wouldn't even run][0]. The solution for this > case, I [found to work well][1], is a REUSE.toml in debian/. I could > only reproduce the described behavior locally, when running > spdx2debian on a REUSE compliant upstream project (i.e. no debian/ > directory) once to generate debian/copyright and *then re-running* > spdx2debian. I agree with Jonas that coming up with a licensing for > debian/copyright on the second run is misleading.
> The default behavior for spdx2debian should be that w/o additional > work by the maintainer the project has just become not fully reuse > compliant (no copyright information for d/copyright available) and > therefore should error out accordingly. Yes, this sounds reasonable to me. Great that you contribute bugreports upstream, but please also document prominently any workarounds applied those bugs. > xD - hope you didn't take that personally, Jonas! Not at all :-) - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
