Re: Several copyrights wrong in R packages
Am Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 12:58:53AM +0530 schrieb Nilesh Patra:
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> I think this is a resultant of using routine-update without proper scrutiny of the
> target package -- which is bad.
I agree that routine-update makes it even more easy to not (re)inspect
the copyright. However, the script is not freeing the maintainer to
do all necessary steps. It is just doing what can be automatized and
checking copyright in general can not really be automatized.
> 1) Is there some plan to fix copyrights team-wide?
Not that I'm aware of.
> 2) Can reliance on routine-update be somewhat reduced?
That's a personal = by maintainer question IMHO. I personally need to
admit that routine-update is the only way I can manage the actual number
of packages. Otherwise I would leave lots of packages behind. That's
why I will stick to it.
> -- Can it give some sort of warning for these things or so?
I think in the special case of CRAN packages we have a pretty good
chance to do so:
1. Diff between DESCRIPTION file of the HEAD of upstream branch
compared with the previous version and issue a warning if the
string in the License field is different should be relatively
easy to accomplish
2. dh-update-R could also update d/copyright if needed.
As always patches are welcome.
> This might not sound all that important, but conflicting licenses can become RC in future, which is
> bad again, thought.
Yes. And once such a bug is filed we can fix it.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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