On Saturday, 22 October 2022 12:09:30 CEST you wrote: > Thank you. This does not throw an error, but does not work as expected > either: > (sid)ametzler@argenau:/tmp/GUILE-GNUTLS/guile-gnutls-3.7.9$ cat > debian/fix.scanned.copyright ! Files:"*" Copyright=~"s/, Free Software$/, > Free Software Foundation, Inc./" > (sid)ametzler@argenau:/tmp/GUILE-GNUTLS/guile-gnutls-3.7.9$ > > debian/copyright && cme update dpkg-copyright > /dev/null 2>&1 > (sid)ametzler@argenau:/tmp/GUILE-GNUTLS/guile-gnutls-3.7.9$ grep ', Free > Software$' debian/copyright Copyright: 2007-2012, 2014-2016, 2019, 2021, > 2022, Free Software > Copyright: 2004, 2005, 2007-2009, 2011-2015, Free Software
Hmm, Looking at guile-gnutls copyright file [1], I see that this entry is correct: Files: * Copyright: 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990-2021, Free Software Foundation, Inc. License: GPL-3+ whereas the following entry is not: Files: guile/modules/gnutls.in Copyright: 2007-2012, 2014-2016, 2019, 2021, 2022, Free Software License: LGPL-2.1+ So, I assume you want to apply the instruction specified in fix.scanned.copyright to change all copyright entries. Which is not the case because "! Files:"*"Copyright=~"s/, Free Software$/, Free Software Foundation, Inc./" applies *only* on: Files: * Copyright: 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990-2021, Free Software Foundation, Inc. License: GPL-3+ If you want to fix all copyright entries, you should use the foreach_match instruction [2]. For instance, starting from [1], I can fix the wrong copyright entries with (note the Files argument is different): $ cme modify dpkg-copyright '! Files:~/.*/ Copyright=~"s/, Free Software$/, Free Software Foundation, Inc./"' Warning in 'Files:"build-aux/ltmain.sh" License short_name': licensecheck found an ambiguous license statement. Please: - check the source code to find the actual license association - override this value using "override-license" parameter in "debian/fill.copyright.blanks.yml" file. See "Filling the blanks" section in Dpkg::Copyright::Scanner(3pm) man page for details (this cannot be fixed with 'cme fix' command) Offending value: '(GPL-2+ and/or GPL-3+) with Libtool exception' Changes applied to dpkg-copyright configuration: - Files:"guile/modules/gnutls.in" Copyright: '2007-2012, 2014-2016, 2019, 2021, 2022, Free Software' -> '2007-2012, 2014-2016, 2019, 2021, 2022, Free Software Founda[...]' - Files:"m4/ltoptions.m4 m4/ltsugar.m4 m4/lt~obsolete.m4" Copyright: '2004, 2005, 2007-2009, 2011-2015, Free Software' -> '2004, 2005, 2007-2009, 2011-2015, Free Software Foundation, [...]' $ git diff diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright index 17dcb21..9660ba5 100644 --- a/debian/copyright +++ b/debian/copyright @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Copyright: 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990-2018, Free Software Foundation, Inc. License: GPL-3+ Files: guile/modules/gnutls.in -Copyright: 2007-2012, 2014-2016, 2019, 2021, 2022, Free Software +Copyright: 2007-2012, 2014-2016, 2019, 2021, 2022, Free Software Foundation, Inc. License: LGPL-2.1+ Files: guile/modules/gnutls/build/* @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ License: LGPL-3+ Files: m4/ltoptions.m4 m4/ltsugar.m4 m4/lt~obsolete.m4 -Copyright: 2004, 2005, 2007-2009, 2011-2015, Free Software +Copyright: 2004, 2005, 2007-2009, 2011-2015, Free Software Foundation, Inc. License: FSFULLR The following command also works fine if you want a more readable version: $ cme modify dpkg-copyright '! Files:.foreach_match(.*) Copyright=~"s/, Free Software$/, Free Software Foundation, Inc./"' .foreach_match(/.*/) also works. You can use the instruction passed to cme modify command in debian/fix.scanned.copyright HTH [1] https://salsa.debian.org/gnutls-team/guile-gnutls/-/blob/main/debian/copyright [2] https://metacpan.org/pod/Config::Model::Loader#xxx:.foreach_match(yy)-or-xxx:~yy
