Bug#828088: licensecheck invokes find with -follow

2016-06-26 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday 24 June 2016 22:51:56 Sandro Mani wrote: > I think [-follow] should be removed, for > three reasons. Reason 1: self loops like the one in giac make find, and > therefore licensecheck, fail. Reason 2: symlinks can point anywhere. Do > you really want to let licensecheck run over arbit

Bug#828088: licensecheck invokes find with -follow

2016-06-24 Thread Sandro Mani
Package: devscripts Version: devscripts-2.16.5 Following is a trimmed version of the downstream bug at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1350021 : Description of problem: When licensecheck ran, it reported: find: File system loop detected; ‘./src/giac’ is part of the same file system