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Re: automatically updating debian/copyright (was: Re: r-cran-rsdmx autopkgtest failing)



Hi,

Op Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 03:48:26PM +0100 schreef Joost van Baal-Ilić:
> Op Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 03:00:00PM +0100 schreef Andreas Tille:
> > On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 02:12:36PM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> > > > Routine-update does *nothing* with copyright/licenses.  I have no idea
> > > > how to automate this step and its up to the maintainer (no matter
> > > > whether an automated tool is used or not).
> > > 
> > > Actually I was just suggesting that routine-update print a message 
> > > to remind that copyright/licenses need to be verified.
> > 
> > Feel free to push to the repository whatever hint you consider helpful. ;-)
> >  
> > > Also note that there exist tools for updating d/copyright more or less
> > > automatically, but none is a perfect substitute to manual intervention.
> > 
> > Can you name such tools (possibly hinting to them in the said message
> > to print)?
> 
> Package libconfig-model-dpkg-perl ships cme, which enables one to run
> 
>  cme fix dpkg-copyright
> 
> .  IIRC there's at least one other tool which tries to create/update
> d/copyright.

That would be license-reconcile , also from the Perl people.

Bye,

Joost

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Joost van Baal-Ilić                       http://abramowitz.uvt.nl/
                                                 Tilburg University
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