Working on 'leancrypto' packaging (which now build! see salsa pipeline
below) made me consider life choices wrt debian/copyright.
For several of my packages, I use 'lrc' to audit that debian/copyright
file matches what 'licensecheck' thinks the license of files are.
But what is the best tool to GENERATE a debian/copyright in a package
with 1500+ files with different copyright and license information?
I have heard about 'clscan' but using it does not seem straightforward
to use, or at least I didn't understand how to use it. Are there any
gentle introductions to it?
I expect a tool to be able to either CREATE a template debian/copyright
or UPDATE an existing debian/copyright (made from an earlier template)
by searching through the content of a directory.
A tool like that doesn't feel like rocket science these days.
Could someone summarize the alternatives and share their experience with
some of them?
/Simon
Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
> Packaging is materializing here:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/leancrypto/
>
> Automating debian/copyright generation somehow would help.
/Simon