Peter Miller wrote: > On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 09:49 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > interest to have a written document that describes precisely > > what the Debian copyright file must contain. > > Are there any plans to write a tool to scan a project tree and generate > the DEP-5 debian/copyright file? > > I am my own upstream for many projects, and some of them have thousands > of source files. There is no way I am going to write and maintain > debian/copyright in DEP-5 format by hand. I imagine that a similar > problem exists for DDs who package large upstream projects. > > Without an automated tool, I will be ignoring the optional DEP-5 misery.
I ran into that problem with the xmonad-contrib package recently (about 200 contributors) and just used a bit it grep and awk. However, it would nice if there was a tool that did this automagically. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120118133438.0d69d0f43528de42d2b4c...@mega-nerd.com