[Bug 1164261] Re: licensecheck occasional errors

[Benjamin Drung]

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #704434
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704434

** Also affects: devscripts (Debian) via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704434
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

** Changed in: devscripts (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: devscripts (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

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Title:
  licensecheck occasional errors

Status in “devscripts” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in “devscripts” package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  With some input files (raring lxc source package, linux kernel git
  tree) licensecheck reports an error:

  sarnold at hunt:~/trees/linux$ licensecheck -r * > /dev/null
  POSIX syntax [= =] belongs inside character classes in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\s*  [==] <-- HERE {1}  \s*/ at /usr/bin/licensecheck line 367.
  POSIX syntax [= =] is reserved for future extensions in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\s*  [==] <-- HERE {1}  \s*/ at /usr/bin/licensecheck line 367.
  sarnold at hunt:~/trees/linux$ 

  
  or:

  sarnold at hunt:~/ubuntu/sbuild/audits/lxc/raring/lxc-0.9.0~rc1$ licensecheck -r *
  autogen.sh: *No copyright* UNKNOWN
  debian/local/lxc.sh: *No copyright* UNKNOWN
  runapitests.sh: *No copyright* UNKNOWN
  POSIX syntax [= =] belongs inside character classes in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\s*  [==] <-- HERE {1}  \s*/ at /usr/bin/licensecheck line 367.
  POSIX syntax [= =] is reserved for future extensions in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\s*  [==] <-- HERE {1}  \s*/ at /usr/bin/licensecheck line 367.

  
  I couldn't reproduce in /etc, /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/share/doc, so clearly it's input-dependent, but I'm having trouble figuring out what input exactly.

  Thanks

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: devscripts 2.13.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-16.26-generic 3.8.5
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-16-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Apr  3 20:02:04 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-18 (167 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=rxvt-unicode
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: devscripts
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-03-18 (16 days ago)

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