Bug#942756: cme: please provide more description of the format of d/fix.scanned.copyright

[Dominique Dumont]

On Wednesday, 23 October 2019 04:40:11 CEST Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> Makes sense - though am I correct to think that fix.scanned.copyright is for
> fixing extractions that include html entities, weird chars from upstream,
> etc?

Yes. In this case, overriding the bad entry with fill.copyright.blanks is less 
practical because future upstream changes are masked.

> > On the other hand, the "load string syntax" section was intended to
> > provide
> > instructions usable for non-perl programmers. Was that section
> > overwhelming
> > as well ?
> 
> It was originally, but after your message, it's much more clear.  There's
> not nearly as much to learn as it originally looked like.

:-)

> > In any case, I may need to split this man page... What do you think ?
> 
> No, I don't think that's necessary anymore.  Maybe a few more words of
> description, and some pointers to the Config::Model::Loader section. 
> Possible patches are attached that use the explanations you sent me.

Although 'cme update' is intended to be a generic sub-command of cme. update 
can be applied to any application supported by cme, like systemd, ssh... On 
the other hand, dpkg is the only application where update provides more 
functionality than 'cme migrate'.. :-/

Anyway, I'll modify the wording to be less specific to dpkg. And may be keep 
dpkg as a real world example.

Many thanks for the discussion and the patches :-)

All the best