Hi Otto, On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 2:03 AM Otto Kekäläinen <o...@debian.org> wrote: > > Maybe it cannot parse paths that start with a > wildcard?
I agree. The issue is the matching behavior of the leading wildcard. This is probably the same as Bug#970274 but I ultimately decided against merging them because the ineffective re-ordering attempts you described. They are probably a consequence, but I am not sure. It should be examined after the other bug was solved. Merging the bugs the other way around seemed also like a poor idea, because Bug#970274 pinpoints the exact reference from the copyright specification at issue here. The copyright check was rewritten recently. There is no official parser. Thanks for helping to make Lintian better for everyone, and sorry about all the bugs! Kind regards Felix Lechner