Package: licenserecon Version: 16.0 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
On the current upstream: ----- $ licenserecon fi: Versions: licenserecon '16.0' licensecheck '3.3.9-1' Parsing Source Tree .... Reading d/copyright .... Running licensecheck .... No significant differences found ----- On the upcoming upstream: ----- $ licenserecon fi: Versions: licenserecon '16.0' licensecheck '3.3.9-1' Parsing Source Tree .... Reading d/copyright .... ** Superfluous file pattern configure ** Superfluous file pattern ltmain.sh ** Superfluous file pattern m4/libtool.m4 ** Superfluous file pattern src/ntpctl.8 Running licensecheck .... d/copyright | licensecheck FSFULLR | FSFAP m4/ax_add_fortify_source.m4 FSFULLR | FSFAP m4/ax_check_compile_flag.m4 FSFULLR | ISC m4/check-libc-compat.m4 FSFULLR | ISC m4/check-os-options.m4 FSFULLR | ISC m4/disable-compiler-warnings.m4 ----- Those are all files whose license changes according to which variant (BSD, GNU, etc.) of autoconf/libtool/m4, etc. upstream used to produce a new release. As such, IMHO, there is zero point in updating d/copyright at every release just to match changes in license for such auto-generated files, let alone to report any discrepancy as an error. They should therefore be ignored by licensereconf and licensecheck. Martin-Éric -- System Information: Debian Release: forky/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.12.86+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fi:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages licenserecon depends on: ii libc6 2.42-16 ii licensecheck 3.3.9-1 licenserecon recommends no packages. licenserecon suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
