Hello Andrey

Am 17.05.2026 17:12 schrieb Andrey Rakhmatullin:
Evidently, the tool that is being discussed uses practices that aren't
used in normal Debian packaging, such as not having Files: * and
trying to list license/copyright info for individual files, thus not
being able to use Files: * or Files: debian to cover d/copyright
implicitly.

When you referring to "spdx2debian" I need to clarify. It is important to
distinguish between "practices" and "standards".
There is Debian and there is SPDX/Reuse. My "spdx2debian" is in
between an somehow try to bring them (or some of their good documented
packages) together.

That is why we discuss this here. If a project is 100%-spdx-compliant there is no need for a * stanza. But technically if multiple files in the repo share the same license and the copyright info, and if they are not mixed with other files in the same directory "spdx2debian" will use "somedir/*" for them. It is not that unflexible. ;)

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