Package: devscripts Version: devscripts-2.16.5 Following is a trimmed version of the downstream bug at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1350021 :
Description of problem: When licensecheck ran, it reported: find: File system loop detected; ‘./src/giac’ is part of the same file system loop as ‘./src’. Can't close(GLOB(0x668db0)) filehandle: '' at /usr/bin/licensecheck line 387 There are two bugs here: licensecheck tries to close a file handle on line 387 even when the handle is already closed due to find exiting with an error, and licensecheck invokes find with the -follow option. The find man page says that -follow is deprecated and -L should be used instead, by the way. But I can't conceive of any situation where using -follow/-L is the right thing to do. I think it should be removed, for three reasons. Reason 1: self loops like the one in giac make find, and therefore licensecheck, fail. Reason 2: symlinks can point anywhere. Do you really want to let licensecheck run over arbitrary parts of the filesystem? Reason 3: every file in a package *should* be reachable without traversing symlinks at all. (If fedora-review doesn't have a check for that, it probably should.) Steps to Reproduce: 1. mkdir loop 2. ln -s . loop/loop 3. licensecheck -r -v loop Actual results: The error messages reported above, and no license output. Expected results: A report on licenses. Additional info: The filesystem type might have something to do with this. I do NOT see this behavior if I create the loop under /tmp (tmpfs), but I do see it if the loop is under my /home directory (ext4).