Le Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 03:21:50PM +0100, Daniel Leidert a écrit : > > Well, licensecheck(1) exists. Maybe many packagers don't know it?
Hi Daniel, I would rather think that one reason for defective debian/copyright files are the false negatives of licensecheck ;) `grep -ri copyright .' is more messy but an indispensable complement, in my opinion, and in the case nothing is found it is usually safer to try a few other keywords and to inspect some files by hand. > > PS: and of course, consider using the machine-readable format if you have > > not > > tried yet: http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat > > Would be nice to have a licensecheck mode to compare debian/copyright to > the checked source. I was considering filing a lintian wishlist :) I have caught once in the past an upstream update that was adding a non-free MD5 implementation, but an automatic safeguard wouldn't hurt. Also, I think that my proposal can be useful as well in the case of a big update where the diff is really large. The maintainer could file a RFH and use the current procedure, giving a look to other's packges in exchange for the help with his. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
