[Pkg-octave-devel] Switch octave-pkg-dev from CDBS into dh

[Sébastien Villemot]

On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 12:21:50PM +0100, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2017-12-28 10:23]:
> 
> > On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 08:51:42AM +0100, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> > > 
> > > As I expected, it was not difficult to adapt the code in
> > > octave-pkg-dev for switching from CDBS into dh.  It is implemented
> > > in the Git branch dh-instead-of-cdbs.  Just for the record, I am
> > > attaching below the diff against master.
> > 
> > Thanks. Note that you forgot to drop the Depends of octave-pkg-dev on cdbs.
> 
> This is on purpose, because there is a call to licensecheck2dep5 in
> make-octave-forge-debpkg.  Should I downgrade the Depends:cdbs to
> Recommends:cdbs?

In my experience, cme provides a better way of creating the copyright file
from scratch. Basically you just run "cme update dpkg-copyright" from the
source tree (starting from a nonexistent debian/copyright).

See this blog post for more details:

 https://ddumont.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/improving-creation-of-debian-copyright-file/

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