[Build-common-hackers] Bug#840330: Bug#840330: cdbs: licensecheck runs twice during build

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Jérémy Lal (2016-10-10 21:24:23)
> 2016-10-10 20:59 GMT+02:00 Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>:
>> Quoting Jérémy Lal (2016-10-10 18:51:53)
>>> cdbs runs licensecheck two times during build:
[...]
>>> and it crashes too.
>>
>> That's a different and more serious bug.  Please file a bugreport 
>> separately about that, with more details.
>
> ok, bad wording on my side: it doesn't crash, the build is killed 
> after 150 minutes of inactivity. Probably because licensecheck has to 
> analyze a lot more binary files because of this bug - that's fair so i 
> won't open a new bug.

That sounds like two bugs (of severity important, I suggest):

  * licensecheck too slow (takes 150/2 minutes for nodejs)
  * licensecheck is too silent (causes timeout on buildds)

>>> Is there some way to avoid completely running licensecheck when 
>>> building on sbuild. It's a ressource hog and discutably useful.
>>
>> Avoid build-depending on licensecheck should do the trick.
> 
> Well, that would be caused by
> Build-Depends: @cdbs@
> 
> which gives
> Build-Depends: cdbs,
>  licensecheck,
> 
> after refreshing control file with
> DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 debuild clean
> 
> ?

This like suppresses auto-resolved build-dependency:

CDBS_BUILD_DEPENDS_rules_utils_copyright-check =


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