Bug#832840: license-reconcile: FTBFS: dh_auto_test: perl Build test --verbose 1 returned exit code 255

[gregor herrmann]

Control: tag -1 + confirmed

On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 09:54:49 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

> Source: license-reconcile
> Version: 0.11
> Severity: serious
> Tags: stretch sid
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20160728 qa-ftbfs
> Justification: FTBFS on amd64
> 
> Hi,
> 
> During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
> amd64.
> 
> > #   Failed test at t/09-nolicense.t line 13.
> > # Compared $data->[0]{"copyright"}[0]
> > #    got : 'Copyright: 1992-1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.'
> > # expect : 'Copyright: 1992, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved'
> > # Looks like you failed 1 test of 2.
> > t/09-nolicense.t .......... 


Smells like that's caused by changes in licensecheck which now uses
String::Copyright which "serializes in normalized format".

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.


Cheers,
gregor

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