On 18/02/2026 01:09, Adrian Dombeck wrote:
Package: licenserecon
Version: 11.0
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
According to the comment in /usr/share/lrc/lrc.config:
> # Directories identified by trailing slash /
> # Entire contents will be (recursively) excluded.
> debian/patches/
directories listed in debian/lrc.config should be excluded recursively.
No. Recursive exclusion was deemed too aggressive and was withdrawn,
but I overlooked changing the comment!
I'll close this bug by fixing that comment.
In practice, only files directly in the listed directory are excluded, files in
subdirectories are not.
Here is a minimal example to reproduce the issue:
OK, but do you have an example of a real package where this is considered an
issue?
ISTM that if it is considered desirable to exclude a whole directory tree from
license checking,
that something must be seriously wrong,
either with licensecheck or the copyright file itself.
Cheers,
Peter
P.S.
Maybe you could use a license alias here?
