question on copyright_hint

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 06:50:39PM +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
>On 11/25/2010 05:04 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 09:45:20AM +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
>>> On 11/24/2010 12:57 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
>>>> so how should i proceed from here?
>>>> - just remove the debian/copyright_hints completely and be happy with
>>>> what i got so far?
>>
>> You should be _concerned_ with what copyright-check helped you
>> discover.  Even if dislike how it works and later trash that routine.
>
>you misunderstood me.
>i was not talking about ignoring debian/copyright_hints but instead 
>about removing the debian/copyright_hints which contains a binary blob.

Ah, I understand now.


>this is how it is now, btw.

Actually no: I changed it :-)



>>>> - file a bug-report in CDBS that it should never create 
>>>> binary-blobs in the copyright_newhints?
>>
>> That's a different issue: changing CDBS does not make these files 
>> free.
>
>
>again, the problem is a 2-fold:
>- - binary files containing copyright files (can be fixed by upstream)
>- - licensecheck extracts binary blobs from binary files and puts them
>into debian/copyright_newhints (must be fixed in licensecheck)
>
>i suggested to file a bugreport because of the 2nd issue (which i know 
>think is not a cdbs problem but a devscripts (licensecheck) problem)

No, I do not think it is a licensecheck issue: licensecheck by default 
scans only some "common source files".

So the issue - which I do not consider a bug, but I do invite you to try 
change my mind - is with CDBS and is best discussed there IMHO.


>still licensecheck generates a binary blob in debian/copyright_newhints.
>i guess it is because it finds "©" and then extracts the "line".

Yes, that is correct.


>so the (2nd) problem is not fixed even though the problematic files are
>fixed.

Try "git pull" and tell me if you feel that is still true.


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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