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

From Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
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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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.


 - Jonas


¹ I am not intimately familiar with linitan, so I only guess that the 
reason it does not e.g. makes use of licensecheck is that it is too 
unreliable to correlate with machine-readable debian/copyright files.

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  Re: Do we still value contributions? Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2019-12-24 17:20 +0100
    Re: Do we still value contributions? John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> - 2019-12-24 19:20 +0100
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  Re: Do we still value contributions? Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> - 2019-12-24 19:00 +0100
    Re: Do we still value contributions? John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> - 2019-12-24 19:10 +0100
      Re: Do we still value contributions? Jonathan Carter <jcc@debian.org> - 2019-12-25 23:00 +0100
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              Re: Do we still value contributions? Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2019-12-26 17:10 +0100
                Re: Do we still value contributions? Ryan Kavanagh <rak@debian.org> - 2019-12-26 17:20 +0100
                Re: Do we still value contributions? Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2019-12-26 17:40 +0100
                Re: Do we still value contributions? Pirate Praveen <praveen@onenetbeyond.org> - 2019-12-26 18:00 +0100
            Re: Do we still value contributions? Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> - 2019-12-26 17:30 +0100
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              Re: Do we still value contributions? Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2019-12-27 12:40 +0100
                Re: Do we still value contributions? Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> - 2020-01-04 04:10 +0100
        possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Mo Zhou <lumin@debian.org> - 2019-12-26 05:20 +0100
          Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value  contributions? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2019-12-26 15:10 +0100
            Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value  contributions? Thorsten Alteholz <debian@alteholz.de> - 2019-12-26 17:20 +0100
              Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value  contributions? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2019-12-26 17:40 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2019-12-26 18:10 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value  contributions? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2019-12-26 18:10 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2019-12-28 11:10 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value  contributions? Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> - 2019-12-28 11:50 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2019-12-28 15:40 +0100
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                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value  contributions? Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2019-12-26 20:00 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2019-12-26 20:10 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2019-12-28 11:00 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2019-12-28 11:40 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2019-12-28 15:50 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2019-12-28 16:10 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> - 2019-12-28 21:10 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value  contributions? Thorsten Alteholz <debian@alteholz.de> - 2019-12-28 16:20 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2019-12-28 16:50 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? "Paul R. Tagliamonte" <paultag@gmail.com> - 2019-12-28 17:10 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value  contributions? Thorsten Alteholz <debian@alteholz.de> - 2019-12-28 17:30 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2019-12-29 16:00 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2019-12-29 16:10 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2019-12-31 23:00 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2019-12-29 16:00 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2019-12-29 17:50 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2019-12-29 19:20 +0100
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              Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2019-12-28 11:10 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value  contributions? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2019-12-28 14:30 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2019-12-28 15:40 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2019-12-28 17:40 +0100
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                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2019-12-28 23:00 +0100
                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2019-12-28 23:20 +0100
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                Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions? Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2019-12-29 04:00 +0100
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