On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 16:21 -0400, Frédéric Brière wrote: > licensecheck currently applies $opt_check_regex to all command line > arguments if there are more than one. This is very counter-intuitive:
>From what I remember, the rationale behind the "only one file" behaviour was that it allowed to say "what is the license of this file", even if that single file did not match the default set of files which are checked. Admittedly, the same may be achieved using "licensecheck -c . $file". > I'd argue that $opt_check_regex should never be applied to the command > line; I'm not aware of any tools that silently ignore such arguments. > (The point could also be made against $opt_ignore_regex.) This might be losing something in translation. :-) Given that licensecheck is a command line tool, how can those options /not/ "be applied to the command line"? Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
