[Build-common-hackers] Bug#625442: Bug#625442: cdbs: licensecheck -i (ignore) option overrides default

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Olivier,

On 11-05-03 at 12:31pm, Olivier Aubert wrote:
> When activating the licensecheck reporting, licensecheck is invoked 
> with the following option:
> 
>  -i '^debian/(changelog|copyright(|_hints|_newhints))'
> 
> Setting this option overrides the default value 
> ('(?:^|/).*~$|(?:^|/)\.#.*$|(?:^|/)\..*\.swp$|(?:^|/),,.*(?:$|/.*$)|(?:^|/)(?:DEADJOE|\.cvsignore|\.arch-inventory|\.bzrignore|\.gitignore)$|(?:^|/)(?:CVS|RCS|\.deps|\{arch\}|\.arch-ids|\.svn|\.hg|_darcs|\.git|\.shelf|_MTN|\.bzr(?:\.backup|tags)?)(?:$|/.*$)') 
> so activating the rule in a git-maintained tree will try to parse the 
> whole .git repository.

Really?

I haven't experienced that issues myself - and use Git on most packages 
I am involved in maintaining.

Could you please provide an example package, with complete command and 
the resulting copyright_hints file containing ugly git blobs.


> This could be fixed either in the licensecheck2dep5 (by filtering the 
> changelog/copyright* files here), or by filing a bug report against 
> licensecheck so that there is another option to append an additional 
> ignore regexp in addition to the default one.

If truly dot-folders are included too then yes, there are several 
approaches to improving that situation.  But please first double-check 
that this in fact is the case.


Regards,

 - Jonas

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