Bug#698856: devscripts: [wrap-and-sort] support sorting debian/copyright with Debian copyright format 1.0 (DEP-5)

[Martin Erik Werner]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.12.6
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,
It would be great if wrap-and-sort would support wrapping and sorting
debian/copyright if this file is in the Debian copyright format 1.0 (DEP-5).

Sorting of lists (like Files: ...) might be appropriate to do automatically,
sorting of entries based on A specific header would be nice to have optionally
(for example sorting entries by their License: name or by the first filename in
Files:)

Downstream Ubuntu bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/devscripts/+bug/692809

-- Package-specific info:

--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---

--- ~/.devscripts ---
DSCVERIFY_KEYRINGS="$HOME/.gnupg/pubring.gpg"
DEBUILD_SET_ENVVAR_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev  1.16.9
ii  libc6     2.13-38
ii  perl      5.14.2-16
ii  python    2.7.3-3

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  at                        3.1.13-2
ii  curl                      7.28.0-3
ii  dctrl-tools               2.22.2
ii  debian-keyring            2012.11.15
ii  dput                      0.9.6.3+nmu1
ii  equivs                    2.0.9
ii  fakeroot                  1.18.4-2
ii  gnupg                     1.4.12-7
ii  libcrypt-ssleay-perl      0.58-1
ii  libdistro-info-perl       0.10
ii  libjson-perl              2.53-1
ii  libparse-debcontrol-perl  2.005-3
ii  libsoap-lite-perl         0.714-1
ii  liburi-perl               1.60-1
ii  libwww-perl               6.04-1
ii  lintian                   2.5.10.3
ii  man-db                    2.6.3-3
ii  patch                     2.6.1-3
ii  patchutils                0.3.2-1.1
ii  python-debian             0.1.21+nmu2
ii  python-magic              5.11-2
ii  sensible-utils            0.0.7
ii  strace                    4.5.20-2.3
ii  unzip                     6.0-8
ii  wdiff                     1.1.2-1
ii  wget                      1.14-1
ii  xz-utils                  5.1.1alpha+20120614-2

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]            8.1.2-0.20111106cvs-1
ii  build-essential              11.6
pn  cvs-buildpackage             <none>
pn  devscripts-el                <none>
ii  gnuplot                      4.6.0-8
pn  libauthen-sasl-perl          <none>
ii  libfile-desktopentry-perl    0.04-3
pn  libnet-smtp-ssl-perl         <none>
pn  libterm-size-perl            <none>
ii  libtimedate-perl             1.2000-1
ii  libyaml-syck-perl            1.22-1
ii  mutt                         1.5.21-6.2
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:6.0p1-3
ii  svn-buildpackage             0.8.5
ii  w3m                          0.5.3-8

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