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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Subject: Re: Bug#595272: licensecheck: please allow to format output according
 to DEP5
From: James Vega <[email protected]>
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user [email protected]
usertag 595272 licensecheck
forcemerge 472199 595272
thanks

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Fabian Greffrath <[email protected]> wrote:
> currently, licensecheck (if invoked via "-r --copyright") reports the
> copyright
> and license information for a specific source tree in a per-file format,
> but
> does not allow for the grouping of files with the same combination of
> copyright
> holder and license as current DEP5 suggests.
>
> Current CDBS (thus CC:ing the CDBS maintainer) provids a nice little
> helper
> script in /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 that allows to convert
> licensecheck's
> output into DEP5 format [1].

Thanks for the pointer to CDBS' script.  Comparing that with the
existing patch to licensecheck should hopefully give a good base to work
from.

I've personally been avoiding this since DEP-5 is still a draft and is
subject to change, although it has been stagnant for a while.  I'll have
to see how things progress since Lars Wirzenius has stepped up to
continue pushing the DEP to completion.

I'll revisit this post-Squeeze as I'm only considering Squeeze targetted
changes to devscripts for now.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[email protected]>

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