Bug#828941: licensecheck: use binwalk to parse binary blobs?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2019-11-13 16:44:38)
> Licensecheck currently expects to be handed only sourcecode.
[...]
> For use right now, I recommend to combine licensecheck with helper 
> scripts part of cdbs (but *not* build-depend on or otherwise use cdbs).  
> For examples of using those helper scripts to pre-parse some binary 
> files and skip select other ones, while not accidentally silencing later 
> introduced unknown types of files, see file debian/copyright-check in 
> the source code of ghostscript (or pandoc or valentina), and the files 
> /usr/lib/cdbs/license-miner and /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 in 
> package cdbs.

Update: See https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReviewTools#licensecheck
for best practice on using licensecheck with sources involving binary
data (no need for CDBS).

Thanks to Vignesh Raman in bug#103340 for pointing out the above
outdated advice.


 - Jonas

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