Bug#807757: licensecheck: encoding guessing should give more helpful error messages

2015-12-13 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Saturday 12 December 2015 09:34:27 David Bremner wrote: > When the encoding guessing using file fails, licensecheck reports something > like > > /usr/bin/licensecheck warning: cannot parse file 'aggressive-indent.el' > with mime type 'application/octet-stream; charset=binary' > > I had

Bug#807757: licensecheck: encoding guessing should give more helpful error messages

2015-12-12 Thread David Bremner
Package: devscripts Version: 2.15.9 Severity: minor When the encoding guessing using file fails, licensecheck reports something like /usr/bin/licensecheck warning: cannot parse file 'aggressive-indent.el' with mime type 'application/octet-stream; charset=binary' I had to read the source