Make it an official ubuntu package and plublicitize it

[BuhtigithuB]

:)

[BuhtigithuB]

I made some publicity here : https://askubuntu.com/questions/247757/how-do-you-find-the-licenses-for-everything-installed-on-your-system

[daald]

Do you really think the tool is good enough for being published? It's a big hack in my eyes...

On the other hand, a ppa is not too complicated

[BuhtigithuB]

It the most convenient tool that I found for this task... ppa for sure... It a really valuable tool that you created.

[130s]

I second to distributing binary of this. Thanks for the convenient tool!

That said, what makes this even more convenient is to add a feature in dpkg or something that is already distributed as a binary. But I know this raises bar much higher.

[kkremitzki]

I'm interested in packaging this for Debian, which will result in it being available for later Ubuntu versions.

[mcallaghan-bsm]

This is a great idea. Was about to hack the bash for our own purposes, now going to leverage your tool.

[daald]

Oh sorry, still nothing happened. I wish I had the time to do it :(
If anyone likes to help or take over this project: we can talk...

[mcallaghan-bsm]

@kkremitzki , noted interest in doing so @daald
(have you two sync'd up for that at all?)

I've never packaged for Debian, but would be interested in "tagging along" the technical and processes to learn how. Can also assist in any code reviews & code refactoring deemed necessary by the upstream community when we go to submit.

[mcallaghan-bsm]

and come to think of it, they MAY even prefer to just build it into dpkg command tool itself right? i.e. dpkg --list-licenses

$ dpkg --status dpkg | grep Maintainer
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]>
Original-Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <[email protected]>

https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg

[kkremitzki]

It would be easier to be in a standalone package first, getting into dpkg would be a nice long-term goal but it would be more difficult up-front because it's such a core package. BTW, Debian packaging development is now done on their self-hosted GitLab instance at salsa.debian.org, if you feel like it you can take a look and see how things look over there.

[kiplingw]

I think a PPA would be a good idea. So I second that.

[hofmannedv]

Hi Daniel,

I really appreciate the work that was done so far. It is a great piece of software.

Oh sorry, still nothing happened. I wish I had the time to do it :( If anyone likes to help or take over this project: we can talk...

I offer my support in applying pull requests, and patches, and as well as taking over the project. An evaluation for the inclusion into Debian is already underway.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes,

Frank

[daald]

oh sorry, again a long delay.
@hofmannedv yes, from my side fine. i added you as a collaborator. not really sure if this is helpful enough, otherwise let me know. I appreciate any contribution which helps the project and those who use it.

[hofmannedv]

Hi @daald,
thank you for your kind invitation to contribute to the project which I immediately accepted. Our first step is to check the existing patches, and to apply them one after the next if possible