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

[Dominique Dumont]

On Friday 30 October 2015 10:58:55 Steve Langasek wrote:
> 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.

For what it's worth this change of behavior was requested in #794282 [1]. 
Jonas explicitly requested licensecheck to parse binary files.

This broke 'cme update dpkg-copyright', which led to #797562 [2] . To 
alleviate the issue, I added a -t option to licensecheck to skip binary files.

After re-reading the whole saga, I think this situation can be improved. I'll 
discuss with Jonas to nail down the requirements for a better solution.

All the best

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794282
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=797562
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