Bug#862368: scan-copyrights fails to consolidate when licensecheck doesn't report years

[Dominique Dumont]

On Thursday, 11 May 2017 21:44:50 CEST you wrote:
> Because I like the promises of cme, I decided to try and use it again on a
> new package I am working on.

Thanks for your effort. I'll do my best to keep that promise :-)

> I bisected this, and it turns out that I can reproduce this with two files
> present (which indivially are fine) but when both present, it goes wrong.

Many thanks for boiling that down.

> I believe the problem is that licensecheck didn't find year for the 
copyright, and a common copyright-holder for the two files.

Yes. the regexp to extract years from © was fooled by the weird entry from the 
JS files.

Could you try the attached patch ? 

All the best

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