Debian Bug report logs - #472199
licensecheck: output formats: DEP-5 output is imperfect

Package: licensecheck; Maintainer for licensecheck is Debian Perl Group <[email protected]>; Source for licensecheck is src:licensecheck (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Jan Hauke Rahm <[email protected]>

Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:45:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: confirmed

Merged with 595272

Fix blocked by 526701: licensecheck: options: recursive scan should check all files (--check=".*" by default), 545193: licensecheck: options: recursive scan should check all files (--recursive should imply --check=".*"), 828941: licensecheck: source formats: extract strings from binary files with binwalk or hachoir, 828948: licensecheck: source formats: extract strings from binary files with binwalk or hachoir, 837973: licensecheck: source formats: extract metadata from fonts, 960694: licensecheck: file selection: detect and skip binary files by default, 960695: licensecheck: options: profiles other than current "code comments in independent plaintext files", 1040063: licensecheck: source formats: extract metadata from fonts

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On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:43:31PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> I developed the CDBS licensecheck2dep5 wrapper mentioned by
> Reinhard, and would like to both integrate those, merge with the
> other patches in this bugreport, and develop licensecheck further.

Wonderful, thanks!

> I have requested membership of the devscripts team, and am in the
> process of subscribing the the mailinglist now.
> 
> Hope you are fine letting me work on this.  And thanks to Reinhard
> for pushing me out of my cave :-P

An extra helping hands with devscripts is always welcome, especially if
you plan to work not only on licensecheck but also to help out with some
other devscripts :-P I'm no admin of the project though, so I cannot
directly give you commit access ...

Cheers.


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