devscripts copyright file

[James McCoy]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 08:51:13PM +0000, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
> James,
> 
>     I have been looking into the debian/copyright file (which happens to be
> raising a lintian error).

Perhaps you mean “happens to be raising a pedantic severity diagnostic”?

> I have a tool, license-reconcile, which I admit
> is a very immature piece of code, that attempts to reconcile
> debian/copyright to the source code. This can I think be used to get this
> right and keep it right. I had  a go at trying it on devscripts and I attach
> what I currently have.

Whether by hand or tool, it's useful to have this properly documented
and easier to keep up from there on.  Feel free to update the copyright
file.

>  The license-reconcile script uses licensecheck but has a config file to
> guide it when licensecheck cannot read human. I can keep this file privately
> but it would be more collaborative to add it to the debian directory.

Why in debian/? If you find it generally useful, maybe add it to
devscripts itself.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>