Bug#992439: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: blocks fails autopkgtest with recent licensecheck

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Control: reassign -1 libconfig-model-dpkg-perl
Control: retitle -1 libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: blocks fails autopkgtest with recent licensecheck
Control: reopen -1
Control: affects -1 licensecheck

Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2021-08-19 09:43:24)
> Quoting gregor herrmann (2021-08-19 02:34:49)
> > Control: tag -1 unreproducible
> > 
> > On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 17:41:06 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > 
> > > Package: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl
> > > Version: 2.143
> > > Severity: important
> > > 
> > > Licensecheck seemingly gets blocked from entering stable currently, 
> > > due to libconfig-model-dpkg-perl 2.143 fialing its autopkgtest:
> > 
> > I can't reproduce an autopkgtest failure of libconfig-model-dpkg-perl 
> > locally, and I also don't see it at 
> > https://ci.debian.net/packages/libc/libconfig-model-dpkg-perl/ (except 
> > for historical occurences but the last checks all seemed to pass).
> > 
> > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/licensecheck also shows no blocks from 
> > libconfig-model-dpkg-perl.
> >  
> > (Not closing the bug as the earlier failures are a bit mysterious … 
> > Maybe dod has an idea.)
> > 
> > I just did an upload for #992253, let's see what happens.
> 
> This is likely the bug I found and fixed libregexp-pattern-license-perl 
> later yesterday: licensecheck <= 3.2.6 relied on not-yet-documented 
> hints in libregexp-pattern-license-perl which was partly broken¹ and 
> when fixed broke that old (mis)use of it.
> 
> I tested various combinations of old app with new lib and vice versa and 
> thought I had dealt with it, but evidently not: Ysterday I added a hint 
> that recent libregexp-pattern-license-perl breaks old licensecheck.

Seems the issue has reappeared, which as I understand it is proof that 
it cannot be the issue I describe above, since that should now be 
addressed with a "Breaks:".

Reassigning back to libconfig-model-dpkg-perl...

 - Jonas

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