devscripts copyright file

[Nicholas Bamber]

James,
	It happens that myself, Osamu and Dominique have all looked into the 
issue of how to support and maintain the new copyright format. It's 
presumably not a coincidence then that we all found ourselves 
contributing to devscripts.

	I am actually feeling quite ambivalent about my tool. On the one hand I 
don't see why anybody would take a different approach. On the other hand 
it is still immature and an utter pain to use. Thankfully it's focus is 
not on generating the file but keeping it uptodate.

	So my concrete proposal is that once the 2.15.10 (or should it be 
2.16.0?) is uploaded the three of us all try out our tools and see which 
works best, and how they work together.

On 06/12/15 01:01, James McCoy wrote:
> 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,
>