Re: DEP-5 (copyright file format) ... gap with practice

2014-09-10 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: another clear benefit is reduced package cruft. The only thing that is reduced is the size of the orig tarball. People do actually do review package source changes (think every release team unblock, security analysis, etc.), and the

Re: DEP-5 (copyright file format) ... gap with practice

2014-09-10 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Russ Allbery (2014-09-10 06:38:21) Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org writes: It may be good to have a set of specifically defined file types for exclusion in DEP-5 policy. Then we can skip listing them in the copyright file. The helper script can generate a template for the copyright

Re: DEP-5 (copyright file format) ... gap with practice

2014-09-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:01:42AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: How about - instead of codifying into Polict that some licensing is ok to ignore (which sounds very wrong to me) we instead recognize that some pattern of files are very commonly the same across packages: Add a DEP-5 snippet

Re: DEP-5 (copyright file format) ... gap with practice

2014-09-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:20:06AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: How about using your snippet to improve our packaging work-flows instead? For instance, we can have a lintian check that verifies if those files are present in the source package and emit a warning if they are not listed

Re: DEP-5 (copyright file format) ... gap with practice

2014-09-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi here is an example: On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:48:38PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: ... $ debmake -k ... === debian/copyright checked for 90 data === Pattern #00: * File: data/symbol.txt - GPL-2+ + BSD-3-Clause Pattern #00: * File: depcomp config.sub m4/intltool.m4