Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.
Peter Miller <peter.miller.aus@gmail.com> writes:
> Are there any plans to write a tool to scan a project tree and generate
> the DEP-5 debian/copyright file?
> I am my own upstream for many projects, and some of them have thousands
> of source files. There is no way I am going to write and maintain
> debian/copyright in DEP-5 format by hand. I imagine that a similar
> problem exists for DDs who package large upstream projects.
> Without an automated tool, I will be ignoring the optional DEP-5 misery.
This objection makes me think that you believe that more information is
required by the DEP-5 format than is in your existing debian/copyright
files. But the explicit intention of the DEP-5 format is to *not* say
that. It enables you to record additional information, but absolutely
does not require it. That's been the purpose of some recent discussions
about how to indicate a copyright and license for the entire package
without listing clauses for specific files, for example.
If there's anything about the current DEP-5 specification that gave you a
contrary impression, could you please point it out?
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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