On Friday 30 October 2015 10:58:55 Steve Langasek wrote: > But I'm also marking this as affects: devscripts, because I find it > surprising that the new licensecheck output includes a line for sample.png, > when the file was explicitly reported as unparseable. It doesn't seem > desirable to me that licensecheck would list files in its output that are > definitely not going to have embedded license/copyright information and > whose copyright information must be listed elsewhere. > > Perhaps we want to make sure the new behavior for licensecheck is settled > before patching license-reconcile.
For what it's worth this change of behavior was requested in #794282 [1]. Jonas explicitly requested licensecheck to parse binary files. This broke 'cme update dpkg-copyright', which led to #797562 [2] . To alleviate the issue, I added a -t option to licensecheck to skip binary files. After re-reading the whole saga, I think this situation can be improved. I'll discuss with Jonas to nail down the requirements for a better solution. All the best [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794282 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=797562 -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.org
