Bug#807757: licensecheck: encoding guessing should give more helpful error messages

[Dominique Dumont]

On Saturday 12 December 2015 09:34:27 David Bremner wrote:
> When the encoding guessing using file fails, licensecheck reports something
> like
> 
>      /usr/bin/licensecheck warning: cannot parse file 'aggressive-indent.el'
> with mime type 'application/octet-stream; charset=binary'
> 
> I had to read the source to figure out that this warning was only
> about character encodings, and not about the file being skipped
> completely.

Yeah, using 'file' command to guess mime type was not a good idea. 

I've removed this code. This error message no longer applies with the git 
version of licensecheck. This will be part of next devscripts release.

All the best

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