Bug#1025143: licensecheck: file type: lua is missing

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Jérémy Lal (2022-11-30 12:27:34)
> Le mer. 30 nov. 2022 à 12:21, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> a écrit :
> > Quoting Jérémy Lal (2022-11-30 10:06:07)
> > > it seems that licensecheck doesn't know .lua is an extension for the Lua
> > Programming Language.
> >
> > Sorry, I don't understand what is the issue reported.
> >
> > Do licensecheck fail is some specific situation, or do you expect it to
> > have certain use of knowing about lua as a language?
> >
> > Perhaps if you provide a concrete example case it helps me understand...
> >
> 
> The default check regex does not include files with a *.lua extension.

Ahh.  Thanks.

Yes, by default licensecheck scans only a somewhat arbitrary subset of
files based on their file extension.  I find that fundamentally flawed
(i.e. not fixable by changing the set of extensions) and I expected a
future release of licensecheck to move away from extension-based
selection (either by default or altogether).

If you see some particular need for current extension-based selection
(just extended to include .lua) then please do share - perhaps I am
simply lacking in imagination.


 - Jonas

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