On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 06:01:40PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Roberto C. Sánchez (2019-12-26 17:29:52) > > On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 04:30:58PM +0100, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Dec 2019, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > > So, what does the FTP team consider that we, as the wider > > > > community of Debian Developers, can do to help? > [...] > > > When there is a REJECT and the maintainer used a tool like > > > licensecheck, file a bug and let the tools become better. > > > > One interesting thing about this is that I have often wondered if it > > would be beneficial to have checks on debian/copyright during the life > > of a package. > > lintian does some continuous checks. > > Doing it more aggressively requires (I guess¹) more work than is > currently available with licensecheck and related tools. > > > > Checking only once when a package first enters the Debian archive > > seems to leave open the rather likely possibility that some change in > > a future upstream release changes or adds some component license that > > should be documented in debian/copyright. I try to be diligent in > > this regard and even at times have found that I overlook things. > > Keeping debian/copyright up-to-date is certainly an important and > *required* part of package maintenance! > > Some use cme for automating this, I currently use licensecheck2dep5 - > again, please look at https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReviewTools for > options, and anyone having experience with other approaches please add > them to that wiki page! > > > > In any event, a tool that can scan a source tree and produce a base > > debian/copyright file that I as a maintianer could edit would be a > > marvelous thing. Would be possible to make the licensecheck tool dual > > use in that way? > > You mean this?: > > licensecheck --recursive --deb-machine * > > Other tools listed at https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReviewTools can > do similar/related tasks - in particular cme and licensecheck2dep5. > >
Thanks for the pointers. I clearly need to update my knowledge regarding the available options. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez