Hello Jonas
Am 17.05.2026 10:46 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
Quoting [email protected] (2026-05-17 10:07:16)
The decision about compliance goes to "reuse-tool" and is not the job
of "spdx2debian".
If I understand the situation correctly, then "spdx2debian" generally
proxies and reformats facts generated by "reuse-tool",
If I understand your comment correct, yes.
but then chooses
to additionally fabricate a fact about the file debian/copyright for a
more polished result.
Yes, that is a dirty workaround. I am glad this discussion came up. And
I hope we find a better solution I can my tool adapt to. I am not happy
about the current behavior of my tool. It is also quit young.
From a pragmatic and technical view point it might be the easiest for
every one of us, if "resue-tool" would provide an "--ignore" option.
That does indeed sound to me as a compliance decision solely the
responsibility of "spdx2debian".
Agree.
NB! debian/copyright files may contain facts about the copyright and
licensing of the file itself, just not in a REUSE compliant format
spdx2debian do not overwrite a whole debian/copyright file. It tries to
preserve previous stanzas. But I am just in the beginning with this
behavior and waiting for feedback from DMs. DMs need to be very careful
not loosing extra info from their d/copyright when using spdx2debian.
Always check the "diff"! In same cases it might not be the appropriate
tool.
Regards,
Christian
