devscripts copyright file

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 03:58:16PM +0000, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
> Osamu,
> 	Answers below
> 
> On 19. 11. 15 14:47, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> >But it helps to keep package up-to-date.
> >Interesting.  Where is it?
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/main/license-reconcile
> >(My "debmake -k" does similar.)
> >Unlike you, my script (debmake -cc) bunch year into a single range for
> >simplicity.

(The command is "debmake".  Options to use are -k and -cc.  It is in python)

> I can't find what you are referring to here.

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/debmake
 (command package)
https://packages.qa.debian.org/d/debmake-doc.html
 (documentation and license test corps.)

You can install them to stable by dpkg -i :-)

> Just to reiterate my idea is that converting from source to DEP-5 is hard.

Yah... tell me.  Bunching up the exact same license text ... I did it
though.

> So you give up on that and concentrate on reconciling the two instead.
> Obviously the initial conversion has to be done manually or at best

Please not complete manual work....

> semi-manually, but subsequently it is a small burden to keep everything in
> sync.

semi-manually is good
 
> So bunching the years is not a big concern in my code since that is a one
> off actviity.

OK.  I did it too.

Osamu

PS: Licensecheck has advantage over debmake -cc since it scan not just
first match but it uses full file scan.  Debmake focusing on clean
template for DEP-5 I did not do so.