Hi Francesco, * Francesco Poli (wintermute) <invernom...@paranoici.org> [2022-08-13 19:08]:
I applied the following patch to the Makefile:-CEX := po/ +CEX := po/.*\.mo
This includes the po/*.po in the file list which where excluded, previously.
Honestly, I expected that decopy would abide by this new base copyright file and regenerate an identical debian/copyright file.
It works just fine if you do a debclean before generating it.
Well, this looks (almost) technically correct,
Yes and I think that's all you can ask for for such a tool. To me decopy is a good first step to create a d/copyright file but it always need some human eyes.
Firstly, decopy decided that the license for po/* applies to * !!!
I don't know all the decopy code but I think it has some heuristics for which copyright block should be the top one.
Then, I see that apt-listbugs.1 is listed among the special cases. But that file is generated, and I thought it was excluded through the --exclude option of decopy. Apparently, it is not! Why?
I guess exclude is only for the content not for the file list. Maybe that's what meant in #997814..
Finally, I fail to understand where the "2002-2020, Masato Taruishi" additional Copyright come from. It seems to me that every copyright notice referring to Masato Taruishi in the source tree is either followed by his e-mail address or by "et al.". So where does this additional Copyright come from?
decopy strips the et al.: https://sources.debian.org/src/decopy/0.2.4.7-0.2/decopy/res.py/#L509So with the Makefile change above the .po files are searched again and the entry is added.
Cheers Jochen
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