devscripts copyright file

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

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).  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.
> 
>  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.
> Obviously it changes nothing about the building or functioning of the
> package. It is currently about 3K which could be reduced as the script gets
> better. On the other hand as this is a native package we could standardize
> the copyright statements.

But it helps to keep package up-to-date.

Interesting.  Where is it?

(My "debmake -k" does similar.)

Unlike you, my script (debmake-cc) bunch year into a single range for
simplicity.

Osamu