Re: On the license audit for Debian's TeX-related packages

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> wrote:

>> The list of tasks is easy to describe here:  
>> 
>> - Add tpm files to tetex-base's debian/tpm/ directory until all files
>>   are covered
>
> Thanks. Didn't know this.
>
>> - check licenses until no tpm in TeXlive has "unverified" status
>
> I will have to get familiar with the tpm scheme of texlive.

Here, "unverified" just means that there's a license entry in the
catalogue, but nothing of the new information (name of the person who
checked, and when, which version of the package, and in which file the
license information was found).

Ah, an idea.  If anyone of you prefers Perl hacking once in a while, the
tpm2license script could be enhanced:  it should try to compare the
version of the package in Master (the part of the TeXlive repository
from which the orig.tar.gzs are built) or in the Debian sources to the
"version checked" in the catalogue.  That's not only Perl hacking, it's
also about finding a way how to extract the version from those packages
that don't use the standard LaTeX \ProvidesPackage{foo}[version]
scheme.  Probably lots of package-specific rules...

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)