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

[gregor herrmann]

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

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