On 12-01-18 at 08:31pm, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 04:03:14PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin a écrit : > > On 18/01/2012 10:09, Peter Miller wrote: > > > Are there any plans to write a tool to scan a project tree and generate > > > the DEP-5 debian/copyright file? > > > > I personally use: > > $ licensecheck --copyright -r . | /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 > > > debian/copyright > > > > And then manually modify debian/copyright to compress entries to > > satisfaction. > > Dear Peter and Chow, > > In my experience, licensecheck has false positives and false > negatives. Please be sure to validate its results with an independant > method.
Good point. That's also the reason licensecheck2dep5 adds a FIXME to each and every section of its output: Not to be trusted as-is - requires proofreading! > The licensecheck to DEP 5 converter may also be even more useful if it > could be implemented as a lintian check, that would for instance > verify that no new license is missed when upgrading a package. > Sometimes, non-free files try to sneak in… Would be nice indeed. Currently, licensecheck2dep5 when used with cdbs does something similar: warns during build (not independently as lintian does) if an included auto-generated file lacks entries from a freshly autogenerated one. Yes, I really should do as promised in bug#472199 and integrate licensecheck2dep5 with licensecheck itself to have more parts of its functionality available independent from CDBS. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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