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Enhancement: Utility to fix up external map references

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
java
Domain
cli, tooling

Research direction

Look at the SPDX document model in the spdx-java-library to understand external references and element IDs. The utility likely belongs in the command-line tools module. Start by examining existing conversion utilities to see how they handle document input/output and mapping. 'Done' means a new command-line tool that can read two SPDX documents and output an updated 'to' document with mapped external references.

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Description

enhancement

Solve the problem of converting an SPDX 2 to SPDX 3 document with external document references.

The utility would take in a "to" document to be updated and a "from" document

We would need a map from element IDs to to element IDs

Dominant language
Java
Stars
101
Forks
46
Avg merge
15h 57m
Merged PRs (30d)
10

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