[Build-common-hackers] Bug#724281: cdbs: license check a lot of time results in an error

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Package: cdbs
Version: 0.4.122
Followup-For: Bug #724281

Dear Maintainer,

i'm experiencing the same problem.

after a suggestion from jonas that it might be related to locales, i tried
running the licensecheck with the following locales:
  C
  en_US.utf-8
  de_AT.utf-8


for testing i chose the cdbs package itself (cdbs-0.4.123, currently UNRELEASED,
commit 512bff6636ad09a).
i first set the locales (both LC_ALL and LANG), then ran the following command
twice, storing the generated debian/copyright_newhints:
    $ DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=yes dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

the resulting files (and the output of `locale` for each locale) can be found in
the attachment.

as you can see, i got 6 different copyright_newhints :-(


fgamsdr
IOhannes


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

cdbs depends on no packages.

Versions of packages cdbs recommends:
ii  autotools-dev  20130810.1

Versions of packages cdbs suggests:
ii  devscripts  2.13.9

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