Bug#815751: license-reconcile: Incorrectly parses copyright years across lines
Petter Reinholdtsen
pere at hungry.com
Wed Feb 24 09:42:52 UTC 2016
Package: license-reconcile
Version: 0.9
I get several false positive from license-reconcile when using it to
check the copyright file of the future zfs package. One of them look
like this:
Copyright mismatch: File config/depcomp: For copyright holder 'Free
Software Foundation, Inc.' the years
1999-2000,2003-2007,2009,20102011 cannot be fitted into
1996-2012. at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/LicenseReconcile/App.pm line
222, <GEN0> line 3.
The debian/copyright entry look like this:
Files: config/*
Copyright: 1996-2012, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License: GPL-2+ with autoconf exception
And the header of the file in question look like this:
# Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010,
# 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
I guess the parser need to be extended to not remove the comma from the
list when the list is spread across several lines.
--
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
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