Bug#1111126: Policy change and technical adjustments

[email protected] writes:
> Am 17.05.2026 17:14 schrieb Russ Allbery:

>> I'd add a flag to specify the upstream catch-all license, generate a
>> Files: * block stating that license, and then only list the files that
>> are exceptions to the overall license.

> It is not that easy. A stanza in the d/copyright file is build from a
> license plus copyright information. If two files share the same license
> but have different copyright (author) information "spdx2debian" would
> create two different stanzas for them.

I would not do that either, again because it undermines readability. Just
collect all the copyright notices for the same license into a single
stanza as is explicitly allowed by section 6.8 of the copyright-format
standard.