Hi, On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, Max wrote:
I've submitted few patches to it recently but that's just some stuff I've spotted by accident when looking at lintian output. Are there some tools/docs about it? I mean what's the actual maintenance procedure?
Taking care of all the things lintian complains about, is a good start. The file format is described in [1]. The procedure is to manually check each file whether there are any license information in it. As tools like licensecheck and debmake and whatever are good, but might miss strange formats, the best thing is to look into each file. That's why this is the most boring part of maintenance ..
I'm not promising I'll keep it 100% updated all the time :-) but at least we can document this in the wiki and maybe try to plug it into release automation scripts.
That would be fine. Thorsten [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
