New: "cme run paste-license script" (was: Re: pasting license text into debian/copyright)

[Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org>]

Hi

People have complained that adding license text in debian/copyright file is 
tedious.

To avoid this problem, libconfig-model-dpkg-perl 2.102 now ships a new cme 
script to copy a license text in debian/copyright. This script is run with 
"cme run" command [1]

For instance:

$ echo -e "blah\n\nblah\n\nblah"  > my-lic.txt
$ cme run paste-license  --arg license=MyTest --arg file=my-lic.txt
cme: using Dpkg::Copyright model
License MyTest is not used in Files: section

Changes applied to dpkg-copyright configuration:
- License:MyTest text: 
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-<undef>
+blah
+
+blah
+
+blah

$ git diff
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index 60bf1722..6e85dadb 100644
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -22,3 +22,10 @@ License: LGPL-2.1+
     License, or (at your option) any later version.
     On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of version 2.1 of the GNU
     Lesser General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-
licenses/LGPL-2.1'
+
+License: MyTest
+ blah
+ .
+ blah
+ .
+ blah

The doc specific to this script is shown with -doc option:

$ cme run paste-license --doc
paste license text in License paragraph
paste file: cme run paste-license --arg license=Expat --arg file=MIT.txt
paste STDIN: cat MIT.txt | cme run paste-license --arg license=Expat

Please ignore a warning message about missing initialisation of Log4Perl. This 
is harmless and will be fixed soon.

I hope this command will be useful to help you in your packaging activities.

All the best

[1] https://manpages.debian.org/testing/cme/App::Cme::Command::run.3pm.en.html


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