Bug#1145848: Debian NEW review of nlopt 2.11.0-1: ACCEPTED

[Andrew McMillan]

On Wed, 2026-09-02 at 10:39 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:

> Some hint what software was used to generate the missing copyright
> statements would be appreciated.

Hi Andreas,

The copyright-ferretting code was developed by me as a part of the DFSG
toolset - initially we were using SilverSearcher hunting for regular
expressions, but there are many ways that was getting too many false
positives and yet still not finding many things.

Now that I am home again (I had an excellent post-debconf holiday in
Argentina, Brazil and Peru :-) I am hoping to split this out into a
standalone tool.  Also, now that recent GR is in our past, I can
contribute it to Debian.

You can see the code for it here:

https://salsa.debian.org/dfsg-team/dfsg-new-queue/-/blob/main/cmd/dnq/author_check.go?ref_type=heads

Cheers,
Andrew.

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