Re: pasting license text into debian/copyright
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:31:39 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 September 2017 11:24:50 CEST gregor herrmann wrote:
> > gregor, who also hates reformatting license texts or copying them from
> > random places
> I can also whip up a script based on cme that would copy the license text from
> a file (or from STDIN), format it and store it in debian/copyright as a
> License: paragragh
>
> The command could look like:
>
> cme run copy-license <license-file> <short-name>
Sounds nice.
Maybe we could even have "cme run copy-license <short-name>" which
takes the text from a well-know location?
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:44:03 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> I forgot to mention the main side effect: the copyright file is re-organized,
> and the dependency list are re-indented. This is not a problem if you already
> use cme, but may lead to a big diff if you don't.
I'm used to cme reformatting files, so personally I don't care about
the diff :) [0]
Cheers,
gregor
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In one of my wrapper scripts I have
cme modify dpkg-control -save
git commit -a -m 'Reformat debian/control with cme' -m 'Gbp-Dch: ignore' || true
before any commands which actually change the contents of files
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