[Build-common-hackers] Bug#724281: Bug#724281: cdbs: license check a lot of time results in an error

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Giulio Paci (2013-09-23 12:15:11)
> On 23/09/2013 12:06, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> Quoting Giulio Paci (2013-09-23 12:01:18)
>>> Package: cdbs
>>> Version: 0.4.122
>>> Severity: normal
>>>
>>> Dear Maintainer,
>>>
>>> while packaging sptk 
>>> (git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/sptk.git) I encountered a 
>>> strange behaviour of the license check code.
>>>
>>> Invoking the command:
>>>
>>> DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 fakeroot debian/rules pre-build
>>>
>>> a copyright_newhints file is generated (most of the times) and an 
>>> error is reported. Running it again, after a clean, results in a 
>>> different copyright_newhints and a different error.
>>>
>>> This is the first time I encounter this behaviour, so maybe I am 
>>> doing something wrong, but everything seems normal to me.
>> 
>> How are they different?
>
>
> They contain almost identical duplicated copyright year lines (usually 
> the difference is a comma at the end).
> The files that creates the problems are usually autoconf files (e.g., 
> aclocal.m4 or config.guess).
>
> The common errors are like this:
> 
> "ERROR: The following (and possibly more) new or changed notices 
> discovered:
> 
> Copyright: 1996-1997, 2000-2001, 2003, 2005"
> 
> 
> "ERROR: The following (and possibly more) new or changed notices 
> discovered:
> 
>   1999-2006"
> 
> "ERROR: The following (and possibly more) new or changed notices 
> discovered:
> 
>   1992-1999,
>   1992-2001
>   1997, 1999-2001, 2003-2005,"

Sounds like a problem with your build routines doing autoreconf and not 
cleaning up properly - or that the autoreconf'ing is applied before 
copyright check.


 - Jonas

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