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[Nicholas Bamber]

Osamu,
	Okay I've installed it and had a quick look. It looks like  a more 
generalised version of dh-make-perl. I'll give it a go when I next try 
packaging a non-Perl package. Unfortunately I am pretty sure I am at the 
limit of what I can contribute to Debian.

On 20. 11. 15 16:40, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> 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.
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