Hi, On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 08:51:13PM +0000, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > 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 > right and keep it right. I had a go at trying it on devscripts and I attach > what I currently have. > > The license-reconcile script uses licensecheck but has a config file to > guide it when licensecheck cannot read human. I can keep this file privately > but it would be more collaborative to add it to the debian directory. > Obviously it changes nothing about the building or functioning of the > package. It is currently about 3K which could be reduced as the script gets > better. On the other hand as this is a native package we could standardize > the copyright statements.
But it helps to keep package up-to-date. Interesting. Where is it? (My "debmake -k" does similar.) Unlike you, my script (debmake-cc) bunch year into a single range for simplicity. Osamu _______________________________________________ devscripts-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devscripts-devel
