Quoting Roberto C. Sánchez (2019-12-26 17:29:52) > On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 04:30:58PM +0100, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Dec 2019, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > So, what does the FTP team consider that we, as the wider > > > community of Debian Developers, can do to help? [...] > > When there is a REJECT and the maintainer used a tool like > > licensecheck, file a bug and let the tools become better. > > One interesting thing about this is that I have often wondered if it > would be beneficial to have checks on debian/copyright during the life > of a package. lintian does some continuous checks. Doing it more aggressively requires (I guess¹) more work than is currently available with licensecheck and related tools. > Checking only once when a package first enters the Debian archive > seems to leave open the rather likely possibility that some change in > a future upstream release changes or adds some component license that > should be documented in debian/copyright. I try to be diligent in > this regard and even at times have found that I overlook things. Keeping debian/copyright up-to-date is certainly an important and *required* part of package maintenance! Some use cme for automating this, I currently use licensecheck2dep5 - again, please look at https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReviewTools for options, and anyone having experience with other approaches please add them to that wiki page! > In any event, a tool that can scan a source tree and produce a base > debian/copyright file that I as a maintianer could edit would be a > marvelous thing. Would be possible to make the licensecheck tool dual > use in that way? You mean this?: licensecheck --recursive --deb-machine * Other tools listed at https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReviewTools can do similar/related tasks - in particular cme and licensecheck2dep5. - Jonas ¹ I am not intimately familiar with linitan, so I only guess that the reason it does not e.g. makes use of licensecheck is that it is too unreliable to correlate with machine-readable debian/copyright files. -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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