Re: Newbie Help - Ruby on Rails packaging questions.
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Richard Hurt wrote:
> OK, I am attempting to package up redmine and need some general
> pointers. I'm going through the New Maintainers Guide tutorial and have
> run into a few things that I need clarification on.
>
> 1) Is there any type of automated way to extract license info from a
> series of files? I am using a simple grep to do my heavy lifting but it
> seems pretty crude; has no one built anything better?
>
> 2) redmine itself is under GPL-2 but there are some files in the archive
> under various other license (MIT, LGPL, Ruby) and some files have no
> license at all. How do I represent this information in the
> debian/copyright file? Listing each file and it's license individually
> would be overwhelming. What is the best practice here?
>
> 3) The step-by-step tutorial in the DNMG tells the story of packaging
> software that is buildable (i.e. has source code). Since my software is
> built on RoR it doesn't really "build" anything. Is there a better
> tutorial on how to package these types of things (Perl scripts, RoR,
> Python programs, etc.)?
>
> Thanx!
> Richard
>
>
1) licensecheck program from devscripts package
3) Debian policy has links to special Perl policy and others
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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF
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