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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Thanks for looking into this, Petter.

Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen (2016-08-24 11:05:16)
> I had a look at the current failure, and discovered that there are two 
> issues blocking the build.  One is the changed output format from 
> licensecheck, where a trailing period now show up in the copyright 
> strings.  We can either remove it [or] modify the tests to include the 
> period in the string expected.  I would recommend using [the latter] 
> apprach:

Please note that licensecheck cannot promise reliable output, due how 
parsing not-well-formed source code is inherently an inexact science.

For more reliable testing, I therefore recommend to use regular 
expressions in testsuite - e.g. the "like" function in Test::More.


 - Jonas

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