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Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions?

From Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.project
Subject Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions?
Date 2019-12-26 18:10 +0100
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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

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