On 19/02/2026 17:52, Adrian Dombeck wrote:
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 at 23:45, Peter Blackman <[email protected]> wrote:
OK, but do you have an example of a real package where this is considered
an issue?
ISTM that if it is considered desirable to exclude a whole directory tree
from license checking,
that something must be seriously wrong,
either with licensecheck or the copyright file itself.
The real package we have issues with is https://github.com/taiki-e/pin-project which uses SPDX
identifiers in all its files. licensecheck fails to identify the license of all those files
correctly, it gives "Apache-2.0" instead of "Apache-2.0 or MIT".
I believe that's a known issue and is tracked in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=960665
The consequences are manageable though, we just have to add all the directories
from that package which contain source files to lrc.config. There are not that
many, so I'm fine with the solution to fix the comment instead of implementing
the feature.
Thanks for the update.
Also, you could instead try adding a licence alias to lrc.config
Apache-2.0 or MIT | Apache-2.0
or see if the -x or --spdx switch helps
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