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

[Walter Lozano]

Hi Jonas,

On 6/22/21 4:57 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Walter Lozano (2021-06-22 20:55:10)
>> On 6/22/21 2:10 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>> Quoting Walter Lozano (2021-06-22 18:56:05)
>>>> 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...
> You need not write a single line of perl to help with Licensecheck -
> Regexp::Pattern::License is a collection of metadata and regular
> expressions for licenses, and there is a need for both refining those
> regular expressions and for extending to cover more licenses, both free
> and non-free.

Thanks, after debugging a little this issue now I have a better 
understanding of how it works, I hope I can contribute in future, since 
I will be using licensecheck and scan-copyrights.

> If interested, then these commands should provide you a JSON
> serialization:
>
> apt install libregexp-pattern-license cpanminus
> cpanm App::RegexpPatternUtils
> PATH="$HOME/perl5/bin:$PATH" PERL5LIB="$HOME/perl5/lib/perl5" show-regexp-pattern-module --name=License --json
>
> Beware that the cpanm command may take a while, as it pulls in quite a
> few perl libraries - that's the reason I have not bothered to package it
> for Debian yet.
>
> A non-Perl but also non-JSON dump of the dataset is simpler and faster:
>
> apt install libregexp-pattern-license libdata-printer-perl
> perl -CS -MRegexp::Pattern::License -MDDP -e 'p %Regexp::Pattern::License::RE, fulldump => 1'
>
Thank you for the tips, I will use them.

BTW, you already know this but I have been testing the new version and 
so far everything seems to work as expected. Thanks again for the quick 
response.

Regards,

Walter