On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > DEP-5 as defined in http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ does not have any > clause allowing us to skip license entries for certain class of files. > > In practice, many packages lack entries for autotools generated files > which come with very permissive license with mostly identical but not > quite the same copyright phrases which reqire us to quote them > separately. > > I am talking about autotools files such as: > PERMISSIVE > * */Makefile.in > * m4/*.m4 > * configure > * INSTALL > * aclocal.m4 > GPL-2.0+ with autoconf exception > * compile > * depcomp > * missing > * py-compile > * test-driver > * m4/introspection.m4 > * m4/intltool.m4 > GPL-2.0+ with libtool exception > * ltmain.sh > GPL-3.0+ with autoconf exception > * config.sub > * config.guess > MIT > * install-sh
You could always use the Files-Excluded field to make uscan remove those files from the upstream tarball, then use dh-autoreconf (or symlinks for e.g. config.sub and config.guess) to recover them at build time. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CANTw=mm2lqhhckiejq4q7qj+ethi3uuxmor9s9hfvtoyhfc...@mail.gmail.com
