Bug#545193: [licensecheck] Automatically check all files with -r

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Package: licensecheck
Version: 3.0.46-1
Followup-For: Bug #545193

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Control: block -1 by 960695

Hi Kartik,

I agree that current defaults of licensecheck is not ideal.

My current plan to address this is to first introduce a new option
"--usage" which changes defaults, and then later (with bumping minor or
major version number) switch from current usage=legacy to e.g.
usage=debian.

If you have opinions/ideas/criticism for that general conceptual, then
please contribute at bug#960695.

Let's continue to track here the specifics of option "--recursive".

This is (a subset of) current "licensecheck --help":

 -c STR --check STR         regular expression of files to include
                            (default value: common source files)
 -i STR --ignore STR        regular expression of files to skip
                            (default value: some backup and VCS files)
 -r --recursive             traverse directories recursively

How do you think about this future "licensecheck --help":

 -c STR --check STR         files to include;
                            with usage=legacy a regular expression
                            replacing previous or default value
                            and default being common source files,
                            with any other usage a comma-separated list
                            adding onto previous and default values
                            except an empty value which clears the list
                            and default being all files
                            (default value: common source files)
 -i STR --ignore STR        files to skip;
                            with usage=legacy a regular expression
                            replacing previous or default value,
                            with any other usage a comma-separated list
                            adding onto previous and default values
                            except an empty value which clears the list
                            (default value: some backup and VCS files)
 -r --recursive             traverse directories recursively

I.e. change nothing for the option --recursive itself, only for the
options --include and --exclude (both listed here, even if only some of
my envisioned changes are relevant for this issue).

 - Jonas

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