generate copyright_newhints file

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Jaromír,

Quoting Jaromír Mikeš (2017-06-30 12:42:04)
> 2017-06-30 11:36 GMT+02:00 IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) <
> > On 06/30/2017 11:25 AM, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
> > > sorry for question, but I am still not used to CDBS :(

No need to apologize about that.  Great that you improve your skills by 
taking challenging tasks, and excellent that you ask about things you 
are uncertain about! :-)


> > > How I can generate copyright_newhints file without building whole 
> > > package?
> >
> > iirc, it should be generated in the clean target as well:
> >
> >   DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=yes dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -Tclean

Right.

Generally, special package maintenance should be documented in the file 
debian/README.Source - and that file exist for ardour package, where you 
would have found above answer too ;-)

The shortest (commandline and code executed) is this:

debian/rules pre-build DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1


> > note, that you will only get a copyright_newhints file if it differs 
> > from the copyright_hints file. and if it does generate the file, it 
> > will stop the build anyhow, so you cannot "generate 
> > copyright_newhints file WITH building the whole package".

More accurately, the file debian/copyright_newhints gets generated when 
debian/copyright_hints exists. When generated, the result is compared 
against debian/copyright_hints, and if there are _additions_ then the 
build fails, but if there are either no difference or only omissions 
then debian/copyright_newhints is deleted and build continues.


> I've added  DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=yes dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -Tclean to
> d/rules file

That's bad: DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE violates Debian Policy, so must not be 
set during official build e.g. on build daemons: Only set that variable 
on the commandline or in your local build environment, and *only* set it 
for *unofficial* builds, not for builds that you then upload to Debian!

> But d/copyright_newhints file was not created ... I just got this and build
> continued:

If by "build continued" you mean that more happened _after_ the 
instructive messages at the end of your quoted text, then it sounds like 
you somehow added it in a way that ignored errors.  But since it should 
_only_ be run by the _maintainer_ - not automated at all builds (see 
above) I am not really interested in the details of why it continued: 
Please try execute the command on the commandline instead.

Or perhaps read and follow the instructive text:

> To fix the situation please do the following:
>   1) Examine debian/copyright_* and referenced files
>   2) Update debian/copyright as needed
>   3) Replace debian/copyright_hints with debian/copyright_newhints

:-)


Kind regards,

 - Jonas

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