[debian-mysql] Bug#597861: licensecheck-reconcile

[Nicholas Bamber]

owner 597861 nicholas at periapt.co.uk
thanks

I have a plan for this.

1.) A new script built on top of licensecheck that will compare the
output of licensecheck with debian/copyight. Ideally this should all be
factored back into licensecheck itself but the devscripts package seems
to move very slowly so I'll put it into a new pkg-mysql-tools package.

2.) I'll use Debian::Copyright to parse the debian/copyright file.
Unforunately that is out of date with respect to the latest DEP-5 format
and needs updating first.

3.) The output of "licensecheck --copyright --recursive *' is not
actually enough. We need to find every executable file with a shebang as
the first line and check that individually. Again this would be more
easily fixed in licensecheck, but.....

4.) Also we should parse the debian/changelog file for the copyright
holders of 'debian/*'. dh-make-perl does tis and if we depend on
dh-make-perl we can borrow most of the code.

5.) Might use Set::Object for handling some of the comparisons, dates
and files etc.