Package: libstring-license-perl Version: 0.0.11-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
[I would guess that this is the same bug as 1135671, in which case they should probably be merged] Hi, Prompted by `lrc` telling me that a file that contains: SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later. has a license of 'GPL-2', rather than 'GPL-2+', I thought I'd try to work out why that is. I didn't manage to track down exactly why it does that, but I do have a couple of minimal tests that suggest that it is due to String::License $ perl -M5.010 -MString::License -e 'say String::License->new( string => "under the terms of GNU General Public License either version 2, or later." )->as_text' GPL-2.0-or-later $ perl -M5.010 -MString::License -e 'say String::License->new( string => "SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later." )->as_text' GPL-2 It seems to me that the second one of those should also be producing "GPL-2.0-or-later", rather than "GPL-2". I did try pointing the perl debugger at that, but I'm afraid that all that revealed was that it's a very long time since I tried to debug any perl :-/ My totally unfounded guess would be that something is finding a match on 'GPL-2.0' and stopping, when it should either continue, or preferably have first checked for a match for the whole string including the '-or-later' In case it helps to have the real example to look at, the file that was misidentified is here: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/openqa/-/blob/debian/latest/t/43-cli-api.t?ref_type=heads#L2 and you can see that misidentification here: https://dfsg-new-queue.debian.org/reviews/openqa-server HTH Cheers, Phil. -- System Information: Debian Release: 13.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'trixie-fasttrack'), (99, 'unstable'), (90, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.12.90+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages libstring-license-perl depends on: ii libarray-intspan-perl 2.004-2 ii libfeature-compat-class-perl 0.07-1 ii liblog-any-perl 1.717-1 ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-2 ii libobject-pad-perl 0.820-1 ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.148-1 ii libregexp-pattern-license-perl 3.11.2-1 ii libregexp-pattern-perl 0.2.14-2 ii perl 5.40.1-6 Versions of packages libstring-license-perl recommends: ii libre-engine-re2-perl 0.18+ds-2 ii libregexp-pattern-license-perl 3.11.2-1 libstring-license-perl suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
