On Mon, 01 Aug 2016 22:32:13 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > In general I think that license-reconcile needs an active maintainer, > > in cooperation with the moving underlying parts, or it needs to be > > removed. Doing emergency cleanups on each new failure is not > > sustainable. > > Agreed. > > In my defense (I have taken over as upstream of licensecheck and am the > author of String::Copyright), the "old" licensecheck had no guarantee > about its output format and did not even document every change to it, > which I believe has changed going forward.
Just for the public record: I'm not blaming you for improving licensecheck/String::Copyright, quite the contrary :), just lamenting the state of license-reconcile. > Progress of licensecheck is intended to generally not break existing use > (e.g. for its commandline options) but will not promise to guarantee > identical output - especially not where change is considered an > improvement like in this specific case of normalizing lists of years as > the (in some cases only slightly) more compact ranges of years. As a side note: most of the test failures are caused by added or removed trailing full stops; only a few also stumble over the difference in the years. But this doesn't change the general questions about license-reconcile's future. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage https://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - https://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Tom Waits: Gun Street Girl
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