Bug#832840: license-reconcile: FTBFS: dh_auto_test: perl Build test --verbose 1 returned exit code 255
Jonas Smedegaard
dr at jones.dk
Wed Aug 24 15:21:13 UTC 2016
Thanks for looking into this, Petter.
Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen (2016-08-24 11:05:16)
> I had a look at the current failure, and discovered that there are two
> issues blocking the build. One is the changed output format from
> licensecheck, where a trailing period now show up in the copyright
> strings. We can either remove it [or] modify the tests to include the
> period in the string expected. I would recommend using [the latter]
> apprach:
Please note that licensecheck cannot promise reliable output, due how
parsing not-well-formed source code is inherently an inexact science.
For more reliable testing, I therefore recommend to use regular
expressions in testsuite - e.g. the "like" function in Test::More.
- Jonas
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