Package: devscripts Version: 2.15.8 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Unfortunately, the fix for #794282 allows licensecheck to parse binary files like jar and produce results like: $ licensecheck -r -m --copyright src/oca/java/lib/ws-commons-util-1.0.2.jar /usr/bin/licensecheck warning: cannot parse file 'src/oca/java/lib/ws-commons- util-1.0.2.jar' with mime type 'application/zip; charset=binary' src/oca/java/lib/ws-commons-util-1.0.2.jar UNKNOWN C¨2ù3zzÃ0▒îÇï4Á▒I1Ír÷ÿÈ"zìÎ ñÔ \ªjqHEÙgz<n¤zbátZd°j± nP£3Íäye^w?Z,þiaìn/µ¿Pe*L▒cX/9«;«DÄH§½çHj&"Aá dSÎò$fRcoTIæ"Õk@:ÝOS:ÑNÇè¸Nã4¡Ó¤<î×{å×ûèN' 3NøQ3g_8= HçU¼▒!BüêB7ïgxÔv×ðZëiÆËëtnàõ:oà[tnL`:Kç@ôÎ]P▒ä] [[·4xy£ÎMÒ)C3Èúì!ØÕzàçÚÕ ÓtN§7Êå¿ç»}d÷¼®u{ÃpÚX}&Q¯ØWçÕÛX"Þ^¯ó&9¨Ó7ÓÓÚÜ<u¨Õ a½tnÑé}2ÁÝ▒SSkeT1éÐé ú lh\ïåÍð·Â¨Ù+Ö,ûLuutzD@\à-:oå[áÛÆp2!Äñ4>0Ètxù6·I÷vYÅÕÕ sêtÎãÛ¥cïô2¢ÑÁ^îÒ¹[ÙÅwd½¶Ó:ï®òÂàʲh_ÛoÌÔOÅgê'ñÁõrVe¢FZ▒è»6ÿRÇô¢=÷ºßçá%àãp,]p¾u¦y ÏJïZ.75t«}}ð.ò▒Ò59;6tps0¥éÄido£h§îHÃÜeÏUt(BÀÇ!Gx/Áÿ]1sÇH¡[QZÎuÂTäÆõÇ3ÆlR .§«PMÓ«âº3Ó#GÐî¹8NjgI4¯ÖAæCýnëÌ@U]¦±B▒WcðuDä°"{ÍPASÇ¢P1¾¨¥ËØ{Ñð<½ÜÜ#w26fz\o¹PáqÖáä. \÷ï¦e´ê£r§x?÷~▒ïGòÞâVõ{¬ò^«@«▒JÈ´|U¶«wÃ*¡ðª´Ê¨*×bxÆð¶íÐsò¯.ë¢▒;- m(e¼FMGM7GRê#æJY«´c¤õSQn±YÍ®6GX³¥=P;Ñukz'r/QÑG iÍá¶A¦37¨»LZ!Ð fáÙíCËlqñZgîB[ñ: Ä Ü nuñs8< n[ÄÃV8q §0ÛA¼Þ·Äö%@¼ÁñFGÞBm Î;Ãâö%@ü79ÃW▒ ÞLo±&wç{¢¸0¿º0§{ ¿L~ÝHq¡7zü½Õ)$þBo ,âmÙô7é·@ø AÜâ·éw0J&?AE$ÿg `rÉs´,ø4éG¯Pée* ,k^ ²9 ´¥v1P>8O+¦ $ file src/oca/java/lib/ws-commons-util-1.0.2.jar src/oca/java/lib/ws-commons-util-1.0.2.jar: Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract I have similar results when licensecheck stumbles on jpg files. This tends to break "cme update dpkg-copyright" I see 2 ways out of this: - go back to a while list and amend this white list to include the regressions reported in #794282. - add an option to license-check to skip "maybe-binary" types I think the first option would be better for our users. Thoughts ? -- Package-specific info: --- /etc/devscripts.conf --- --- ~/.devscripts --- DEBCHANGE_RELEASE_HEURISTIC=changelog DEBSIGN_KEYID="49AB2B6C" DEBUILD_LINTIAN=yes DEBUILD_LINTIAN_OPTS="-i -I --show-overrides" USCAN_DESTDIR=../tarballs DEBRELEASE_DEBS_DIR=../build-area -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.18.2 ii libc6 2.19-19 ii perl 5.20.2-6 ii python3 3.4.3-4 pn python3:any <none> Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii at 3.1.16-1 ii curl 7.44.0-1 ii dctrl-tools 2.24-1 ii debian-keyring 2015.08.13 ii dput-ng [dput] 1.10 ii dupload 2.7.0 ii equivs 2.0.9 ii fakeroot 1.20.2-1 ii file 1:5.22+15-2 ii gnupg 1.4.19-5 ii libdistro-info-perl 0.14 ii libencode-locale-perl 1.03-1 ii libjson-perl 2.90-1 ii liblwp-protocol-https-perl 6.06-2 ii libsoap-lite-perl 1.11-1 ii liburi-perl 1.69-1 ii libwww-perl 6.13-1 ii lintian 2.5.36.1 ii man-db 2.7.2-1 ii patch 2.7.5-1 ii patchutils 0.3.4-1 ii python3-debian 0.1.27 ii python3-magic 1:5.22+15-2 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 ii strace 4.10-3 ii unzip 6.0-18 ii wdiff 1.2.2-1 ii wget 1.16.3-3 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1 Versions of packages devscripts suggests: ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20150408cvs-1 ii build-essential 11.7 pn cvs-buildpackage <none> pn debbindiff <none> pn devscripts-el <none> pn gnuplot <none> ii gpgv 1.4.19-5 pn libauthen-sasl-perl <none> ii libfile-desktopentry-perl 0.12-1 ii libnet-smtp-ssl-perl 1.03-1 ii libterm-size-perl 0.207-1+b2 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii libyaml-syck-perl 1.27-2+b2 ii mutt 1.5.23-3.1 ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:6.9p1-1 pn svn-buildpackage <none> ii w3m 0.5.3-24 -- no debconf information