Machine-readable copyright module, take 2

[jsw at debian.org]

I suck at email.  Including the list this time.

On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 12:53:58AM -0700, jsw at debian.org wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 11:43:52PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 02:26:06PM -0700, John Wright wrote:
> > > I'm re-sending the whole patch stack, since there were some (minor)
> > > changes in the earlier patches as I wrote the rest of them.
> > 
> > John, is the jsw/dep5-copyright on alioth meant to be up-to-date (AFAICT
> > it is currently not up to date, it only contains an initial subset of
> > the patchset you sent to the list), or should we refer to the Gitorious
> > one for the most recent version of your work?
> 
> Sorry, didn't ever update that (non-fastforward commits require running
> a command on alioth, which is pretty annoying).  I'm about to push this
> whole patch set to master, and I'll remove that branch entirely.
> 
> > Aside from that, the only other issue I've spotted is the lack of an
> > entry in debian/copyright for this new module. ... and yes, this is a
> > very "meta" omission, given the patchset in question :-)
> 
> Hah, good catch, fixed.  We really should convert this to DEP5 anyway...
> 
> > For non-DebConf attendees, I'd also like to mention here that at DebConf
> > John's example script has been run on all (allegedly) machine-parsable
> > debian/copyright files currently in the Debian archive (~21'000 files).
> > As far as he could tell all remaining parsing failures are actual issues
> > in the files --- that we should probably report at bugs at some point
> > --- rather than in the parser itself.
> 
> Thanks - I meant to mention this when sending the example script.  I'll
> try to compile the list of packages with broken changelogs this weekend
> or next.  Might even try out dgit for fixes. :-)
> 
> > Thanks a lot for this module, I'm looking forward for its arrival in
> > master.
> 
> Thank you - I'll be pushing it shortly!

-- 
John Wright <jsw at debian.org>
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