Bug#989912: libregexp-pattern-license-perl: No deterministic results are provided

[Walter Lozano]

Hi Jonas,

On 6/22/21 2:10 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Walter Lozano (2021-06-22 18:56:05)
>> Thank you for your detailed explanation. I cannot completely follow
>> you but I can follow the high level idea. I was completely sure that
>> the issue was related to how license versioning was handled, but my
>> limited experience in perl and in these particular modules make it
>> impossible for me to go deeper. So I establish a personal goal of at
>> least make a bug report which were really useful for you and provide a
>> basement for your investigation, mainly by pointing to what was more
>> evident for me, the non deterministic output.
> I suspect that it is not so much your lack of experience that make the
> code difficult to follow, but to a larger degree the odd evolution of
> Licensecheck from a single-file quick hack and my no doubt
> unconventional programming style (I never formally studied programming,
> just fumbled with Perl on my own for 20+ years).

You are definitely over estimating my Perl skills, which are very 
limited, however it is a language which connects me with one of 
professors who inspired me (when I was a student, long time ago). 
Although he never taught me Perl I remember he was always carrying a 
book about Perl.

>> I'm really happy that this report was helpful.
> Certainly was.  Hope you find interest in doing more of that - to
> Licensecheck or to other projects :-)

Sure, I will love to contribute if I can, most probably by filling bug 
reports, hopefully useful. But who knows, maybe I will eventually 
improve my Perl skills...

> I notice your Collabora email, and hope you get lots of joyful
> challenges there.

Yes, lot of fun here! Nice people, many challenges, so I'm having a good 
time.

See you around

Regards,

Walter