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

[Joost van Baal-Ilić <joostvb+debian-r@uvt.nl>]

Hi,

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.

Bye,

Joost

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