Bug#1001634: licensecheck: FIXME is too terse (should be explanatory sentence)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

[ bug#950363 cloned as bug#1001634 ]

Quoting Dominique Dumont (2020-02-07 14:34:18)
> On Thursday, 6 February 2020 11:21:01 CET Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Now that I write this, it occurs to me that it probably makes sense 
> > to expand those FIXMEs to add some explanatory text.

Tracking this as a bugreport of its own.

Here is sample output as currently done by licensecheck:

Files: foo
Copyright: 1999, bar baz
License: UNKNOWN
 FIXME

An idea is to expand the default to something like this:

Files: foo
Copyright: 1999, bar baz
License: UNKNOWN
 FIXME: License not identified - should be copied verbatim here.
Confidence: Unverified
Comment:
 FIXME: This section was autogenerated and should be verified.

Where Confidence: field could instead be e.g. Maintainer-Verified or 
Upstream-Verified (see DEP-3 for inspiration).


See also bug#1001635 about distinguishing reasons for licensecheck 
giving up, which could be used to produce varying output.


 - Jonas

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