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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Dominique Dumont (2015-10-31 20:41:18)
> 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.

You make it sound like I requested licensecheck to change behaviour, 
which was not the case.

I explicitly requested licensecheck to not change behaviour.

It may seem silly for licensecheck to scan binary files like a PNG, but 
consider hte less obvious example of Postscript code containing 
plaintext including copyright and licensing info, with embedded binary 
chunks.  Or consider non-Unicde plaintext files where the part flagging 
it as "it's binary, move along" is the very copyright character!


 - Jonas

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