Debian Bug report logs - #472199
licensecheck: output formats: DEP-5 output is imperfect

Package: licensecheck; Maintainer for licensecheck is Debian Perl Group <[email protected]>; Source for licensecheck is src:licensecheck (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Jan Hauke Rahm <[email protected]>

Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:45:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: confirmed

Merged with 595272

Fix blocked by 526701: licensecheck: options: recursive scan should check all files (--check=".*" by default), 545193: licensecheck: options: recursive scan should check all files (--recursive should imply --check=".*"), 828941: licensecheck: source formats: extract strings from binary files with binwalk or hachoir, 828948: licensecheck: source formats: extract strings from binary files with binwalk or hachoir, 837973: licensecheck: source formats: extract metadata from fonts, 960694: licensecheck: file selection: detect and skip binary files by default, 960695: licensecheck: options: profiles other than current "code comments in independent plaintext files", 1040063: licensecheck: source formats: extract metadata from fonts

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Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 02:17:49 +0200
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Dear Maintainer,

currently the following methods for creating a DEP-5 compliant copyright
file:

 debmake -c
 cme check dpkg-copyright
 licensecheck -r --merge-licenses --deb-machine .

Thus this wishlist bug can probably be closed.

Cheers,
Lars

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