On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:31:39 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Wednesday, 20 September 2017 11:24:50 CEST gregor herrmann wrote: > > gregor, who also hates reformatting license texts or copying them from > > random places > I can also whip up a script based on cme that would copy the license text > from > a file (or from STDIN), format it and store it in debian/copyright as a > License: paragragh > > The command could look like: > > cme run copy-license <license-file> <short-name>
Sounds nice. Maybe we could even have "cme run copy-license <short-name>" which takes the text from a well-know location? On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:44:03 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > I forgot to mention the main side effect: the copyright file is re-organized, > and the dependency list are re-indented. This is not a problem if you already > use cme, but may lead to a big diff if you don't. I'm used to cme reformatting files, so personally I don't care about the diff :) [0] Cheers, gregor [0] In one of my wrapper scripts I have cme modify dpkg-control -save git commit -a -m 'Reformat debian/control with cme' -m 'Gbp-Dch: ignore' || true before any commands which actually change the contents of files -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at/ - Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- BOFH excuse #362: Plasma conduit breach
