On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 07:31:02PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > 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, Too much work (at least when you are not repacking the tarball for other reasons) for absolutely no gain.
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