Bug#1021773: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: tweak example in docs for fix.(scanned.)copyright does not work

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2022-10-22 Dominique Dumont <dod at debian.org> wrote:
> On Saturday, 22 October 2022 12:09:30 CEST you wrote:
> > Thank you. This does not throw an error, but does not work as expected
> > either:
> > (sid)ametzler at argenau:/tmp/GUILE-GNUTLS/guile-gnutls-3.7.9$ cat
> > debian/fix.scanned.copyright ! Files:"*" Copyright=~"s/, Free Software$/,
> > Free Software Foundation, Inc./"
> > (sid)ametzler at argenau:/tmp/GUILE-GNUTLS/guile-gnutls-3.7.9$ >
> > debian/copyright && cme update dpkg-copyright > /dev/null 2>&1
> > (sid)ametzler at argenau:/tmp/GUILE-GNUTLS/guile-gnutls-3.7.9$ grep ', Free
> > Software$' debian/copyright Copyright: 2007-2012, 2014-2016, 2019, 2021,
> > 2022, Free Software
> > Copyright: 2004, 2005, 2007-2009, 2011-2015, Free Software

> Hmm, Looking at guile-gnutls copyright file [1],  I see that this entry is correct:

> Files: *
> Copyright: 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990-2021, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License: GPL-3+

> whereas the following entry is not:

> Files: guile/modules/gnutls.in
> Copyright: 2007-2012, 2014-2016, 2019, 2021, 2022, Free Software
> License: LGPL-2.1+

> So, I assume you want to apply the instruction specified in fix.scanned.copyright to change all copyright entries.

> Which is not the case because 

> "! Files:"*"Copyright=~"s/, Free Software$/, Free Software Foundation, Inc./"

> applies *only* on:

> Files: *
[ Way to do it snipped]

I see. :-) Thank you very much for the handholding.

cu Andreas

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