Re: Bug#618689: ITP: squizz bioinformatics sequence converter tool

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 09:39:14AM +0100, Olivier Sallou a écrit :
> 
> 1) How did you find license issues ? (manual parse of all files?)
> 
> 2) Regarding symbol file, how did you generate it ? (could help for
> further work)

Hi Olivier,

to check for license issues, I usually use commands like “grep -ri copyright .”,
with other keywords like license or author as well.  When a common pattern
emerges, I filter it out with “grep -v”.  I also inspect the directory tree
by eye, looking for usual suspects. For instance, icons may contain embedded
descriptions or copyright statements, especially when they were copied from
an icon library.

I described the generation of the symbols file in the corresponding commit
message.  dpkg-gensymbols, that is called by dh_makeshlibs, that is called by
dh, outputs a patch to the current symbols file when it looks it needs to
be refreshed.  Therefore, one simple way to produce a symbols file is to create
an empty one, build the package, and look in the build log for the patch,
or run dh_makeshlibs separately (after the package is built).

Bonne journée,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan