# Dep5It - Debian Copyright (dep5) Management Library
Parses [machine-interpretable Debian Copyright files](https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/) (`.dep5`) into object files.
This can be valuable when extracting License and Copyright statements from the configuration file.
## Features
* Easy to use
* Parsing of Debian Copyright files into objects
## Basic Usage
### Parsing a Debian Copyright file
```typescript
import { DebianCopyright } from "@dev-build-deploy/dep5-it";
// Parse a .dep5 file
const dep5 = DebianCopyright.fromFile(".reuse/dep5");
// Show the results
console.log(JSON.stringify(dep5, null, 2));
```
Example output
```JSON
{
"header": {
"format": "https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/",
"upstreamName": "dep5-it",
"upstreamContact": [
"Kevin de Jong "
],
"source": "https://github.com/dev-build-deploy/dep5-it"
},
"files": [
{
"files": [
"test/fixtures/*"
],
"copyright": "2023 Kevin de Jong ",
"license": "MIT"
},
{
"files": [
"tsconfig*.json"
],
"copyright": "2023 Kevin de Jong ",
"license": "CC0-1.0"
},
{
"files": [
"package*.json"
],
"copyright": "2023 Kevin de Jong ",
"license": "CC0-1.0"
}
]
}
```
Example output
```JSON
{
"files": [
"test/fixtures/*"
],
"copyright": "2023 Kevin de Jong ",
"license": "MIT"
}
```