Re: doubts about debian/copyrights

2022-10-23 Thread Ryan Pavlik
To be honest, the copyright file always is the most time consuming part of packaging for Debian, at least for me. So that's not really unexpected, dh handles most other issues as long as you don't have to rewrite the upstream build system. (Making a Debian package can be pretty quick. Making a pack

Re: doubts about debian/copyrights

2022-10-23 Thread Fabio Fantoni
Il 23/10/2022 04:04, Paul Wise ha scritto: On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 15:59 +0200, Fabio Fantoni wrote: Which would be the best tool(s) to get a good starting debian/copyright and decrease the time it takes to complete and fix it? Allegedly scancode is the best option for that, but it isn't in Debi

Re: doubts about debian/copyrights

2022-10-22 Thread Soren Stoutner
On Saturday, October 22, 2022 7:04:37 PM MST Paul Wise wrote: > Allegedly scancode is the best option for that, but it isn't in Debian. > I think decopy/licensecheck are the best ones already in Debian. I have seen this mentioned several times, but I have not seen any explanation as to why. It

Re: doubts about debian/copyrights

2022-10-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 15:59 +0200, Fabio Fantoni wrote: > Which would be the best tool(s) to get a good starting debian/copyright > and decrease the time it takes to complete and fix it? Allegedly scancode is the best option for that, but it isn't in Debian. I think decopy/licensecheck are the b

Re: doubts about debian/copyrights

2022-10-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 03:59:01PM +0200, Fabio Fantoni wrote: > Hi, I had in several cases with difficulties with debian/copyright but in > most cases with the help of decopy plus any other manual checks and > searches, investing a little time I was able to find "the solution". > > Recently I had

doubts about debian/copyrights

2022-10-22 Thread Fabio Fantoni
Hi, I had in several cases with difficulties with debian/copyright but in most cases with the help of decopy plus any other manual checks and searches, investing a little time I was able to find "the solution". Recently I had more difficult with latest packages (mint-y-icons mint-themes and mi