[Pkg-rust-maintainers] rust-same-file_1.0.2-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Ximin Luo]

Josh Triplett:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 04:37:00AM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote:
>> Josh Triplett:
>>> (Narrowing to just pkg-rust-maintainers)
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 09:00:09PM +0000, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Sylvestre,
>>>>
>>>> please also mention
>>>>   Copyright 2011, The Snappy-Rust Authors. 
>>>> in your debian/copyright. Maybe you can also fix the FIXME?
>>>
>>> Didn't debcargo originally have a mechanism to scan the whole source for
>>> things that look like copyright notices and copy them into the copyright
>>> file?
>>>
>>> It seems like that ought to have picked things like this up, unless
>>> there's an issue with the regex.
>>>
>>
>> It did pick those up, see debcargo-conf.git/src/*/debian/copyright.debcargo.hint.
>>
>> We just made manual mistakes in transcribing that over to debian/copyright merging stanzas together etc. Sometimes there are extra copyright holders in LICENSE-* files which it turns out we sometimes accidentally omitted.
> 
> What's the reason for manually merging pieces of that into
> debian/copyright? While I realize that the automated process might
> generate some redundant notices, redundancy isn't *incorrect*, and full
> automation would make issues like this much less likely. (Not to mention
> making packaging easier, as it would just require a quick review rather
> than a manual process.)
> 

The autogenerated info is incomplete and unverified. Since we have to review it, we might as well clean it up as well. It is easier to then re-verify the cleaned-up version rather than lists of 100 files as is the case with some of the autogenerated info.

Can you help with doing some actual packaging work rather than *just* asking questions about really trivial issues?

X

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