Bug#801609: license-reconcile: FTBFS: cannot parse file 't/data/example/sample.png'

Nicholas Bamber nicholas at periapt.co.uk
Fri Oct 30 19:59:28 UTC 2015


Looking at https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#affects you are 
implying that the bug in license-reconcile impacts licensecheck. How is 
that possible? Noone in devscripts should care (at the moment at least) 
if licensecheck was removed from Debian entirely.

On 30/10/15 19:37, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 07:36:11PM +0000, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
>> I am working on this in license-reconcile. However I really don't see how
>> this could affect devscripts. devscripts is a core package,
>> license-reconcile is no such thing,
>
> I thought my reasoning was rather clear:
>
>>> But I'm also marking this as affects: devscripts, because I find it
>>> surprising that the new licensecheck output includes a line for sample.png,
>>> when the file was explicitly reported as unparseable.  It doesn't seem
>>> desirable to me that licensecheck would list files in its output that are
>>> definitely not going to have embedded license/copyright information and
>>> whose copyright information must be listed elsewhere.
>
>>> Perhaps we want to make sure the new behavior for licensecheck is settled
>>> before patching license-reconcile.
>



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