Hi Mike, In data martedì 21 aprile 2020 00:14:03 CEST, Mike Gabriel ha scritto: > > One question: what is debian/copyright.in for? It looks like some > > unused leftover template. > > I uses this script [1] to generate my copyright.in template file. And > I do this when packaging a project initially and also for every > upstream release (or Git snapshot). > > When doing it for the first time, this copyright.in file is my > starting point for drafting d/copyright. > > With the first upload, I leave d/copyright.in in the package (or > rather: in the Git repo). > > When I do a new upstream release of the package, I re-run the script > [1] and get a "git diff" for d/copyright.in showing me all > auto-detectable changes between last upstream version and this > upstream version. > > I then take this auto-detected diff and weave it manually into > debian/copyright itself. This ought to be documented in the debian/README.source file then, otherwise it is hard to miss this. Possibly add a note about it in the top-level Comment section of the dep5 file, so people opening the copyright file have a chance to note that. Thanks, -- Pino Toscano
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