Package: devscripts
Version: 2.15.9
Some time back licensecheck grew a dependency on Dpkg::IPC [1], which on
Fedora causes the "devscripts-minimal" package (which includes
licensecheck) to pull in dpkg. I'd like to propose the patch below to
reduce the dependency load:
diff -rupN devscripts-2.15.9/scripts/licensecheck.pl
devscripts-2.15.9-new/scripts/licensecheck.pl
--- devscripts-2.15.9/scripts/licensecheck.pl 2015-10-06
03:00:34.000000000 +0200
+++ devscripts-2.15.9-new/scripts/licensecheck.pl 2015-10-09
12:51:12.425215534 +0200
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ use warnings;
use warnings qw< FATAL utf8 >;
use Encode qw/decode/;
-use Dpkg::IPC qw(spawn);
+use IPC::Run qw(run);
use Getopt::Long qw(:config gnu_getopt);
use File::Basename;
@@ -337,11 +337,7 @@ while (@files) {
# Encode::Guess does not work well, use good old file command to
get file encoding
my $mime;
- spawn(exec => ['file', '--brief', '--mime', '--dereference', '--',
$file],
- to_string => \$mime,
- error_to_file => '/dev/null',
- nocheck => 1,
- wait_child => 1);
+ run [qw(file --brief --mime --dereference), $file], \undef, \$mime;
my $charset ;
if ($mime =~ m/; charset=((?!binary)(?!unknown)[\w-]+)/) {
$charset = $1;
[1]
https://github.com/Debian/devscripts/commit/c0687bcde23108dd42e146573c368b6905e6b8e8
