Control: retitle -1 should not overturn the hierarchy of files w.r.t. the base 
debian/copyright file (unless there is a really strong reason to do so)
Control: clone -1 -2
Control: retitle -2 please implement an option to ignore the very existence of 
some files in the source tree
Control: severity -2 wishlist


On Thu, 29 Sep 2022 12:22:15 +0200 Jochen Sprickerhof wrote:

> * Francesco Poli <invernom...@paranoici.org> [2022-09-29 00:11]:
[...]
> >Well, I suspect the heuristics should be improved a bit...
> >I think that, when a preexisting debian/copyright file is used as a
> >base for processing, decopy should not change which copyright block is
> >used as the top one, unless there is a really strong reason to do so.
> >
> >Do you agree?
> 
> Sounds like yeah.

Good, I am changing the bug report title accordingly.

> 
> >If this is confirmed, I think a new option should be added (we could
> >perhaps call it "--ignore") that makes decopy act as if the ignored
> >files were absent.
> 
> Yes, I think that would be a good addition.
[...]

I am cloning this bug report into another one focused on this feature
request.


Thanks for your helpfulness.
I hope decopy may be improved soon, so that it may become an even more
useful tool!

Bye.



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