Bug#1091179: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: scan-copyrigths fails on texlive-extra

[Dominique Dumont]

On Thursday, 26 December 2024 13:52:02 CET Walter Lozano wrote:
> I see, thanks for clarifying. I wonder if there is a kind of
> specification which mentions that copyright notice should be utf-8 or if
> it is just the common case.

AFAIK, there's no specification. But this makes licensecheck and cme much more 
reliable. Currently, cme receives parsed copyrights and licences from the 
stdout of licensecheck. Currently I cannot detect which part is utf-8 or 
something else. There's no reliable way to detect this. So I prefer to push 
upstream to clean up.

> > I'd suggest you talk with upstream to fix the encoding of the source
> > files.
> 
> Thank you, yes, I will discuss this with upstream.

Thanks

> I understand that some of these corner cases are triggered by the new
> features in scan-copyrights which tries to get better scanning results
> which is something I really appreciate.

I happy to hear that :-)

> In this context, I wonder if in
> general when trying to parse a copyright notice and some "strange data"
> is found the tool should print a warning and report "UNKNOWN"

cme emits a warning with the unexpected copyright year range and discard them.

Encoding issues should be detected by licensecheck. I don't think it can do 
that. Hence, garbage in, garbage out.

All the best