X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/b2c75b135ddd9dc450e82036ebf37807edef2b67..18e983d3166e42dfdbf4a993073c70da863d6a99:/blog/archive/2016/02/02.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2016/02/02.rss b/blog/archive/2016/02/02.rss index 165b3afcf2..ae6e0e0ff9 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2016/02/02.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2016/02/02.rss @@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from February 2016 Entries from February 2016 - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ Creating, updating and checking debian/copyright semi-automatically - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creating__updating_and_checking_debian_copyright_semi_automatically.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creating__updating_and_checking_debian_copyright_semi_automatically.html + https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creating__updating_and_checking_debian_copyright_semi_automatically.html + https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creating__updating_and_checking_debian_copyright_semi_automatically.html Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:00:00 +0100 <p>Making packages for Debian requires quite a lot of attention to details. And one of the details is the content of the @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ blog post from 2015</a>. To generate using cme, use the 'update dpkg-copyright' option: <p><pre> -cme update dpkg-copyright -quiet +cme update dpkg-copyright </pre></p> <p>This will create or update debian/copyright. The cme tool seem to @@ -86,13 +86,30 @@ planet.debian.org.</p> <p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address <b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p> + +<p><strong>Update 2016-02-20</strong>: I got a tip from Mike Gabriel +on how to use licensecheck and cdbs to create a draft copyright file + +<p><pre> +licensecheck --copyright -r `find * -type f` | \ + /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 > debian/copyright.auto +</pre></p> + +<p>He mentioned that he normally check the generated file into the +version control system to make it easier to discover license and +copyright changes in the upstream source. I will try to do the same +with my packages in the future.</p> + +<p><strong>Update 2016-02-21</strong>: The cme author recommended +against using -quiet for new users, so I removed it from the proposed +command line.</p> Using appstream in Debian to locate packages with firmware and mime type support - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_appstream_in_Debian_to_locate_packages_with_firmware_and_mime_type_support.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_appstream_in_Debian_to_locate_packages_with_firmware_and_mime_type_support.html + https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_appstream_in_Debian_to_locate_packages_with_firmware_and_mime_type_support.html + https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_appstream_in_Debian_to_locate_packages_with_firmware_and_mime_type_support.html Thu, 4 Feb 2016 16:40:00 +0100 <p>The <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DEP-11">appstream system</a> is taking shape in Debian, and one provided feature is a very