Bug 440638 – repoman check for deprecated licenses

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Ulrich Müller 2012-10-31 17:38:34 UTC]

Repoman should be able to check for deprecated licenses, such as "as-is".
The list of such licenses would be specified in the @DEPRECATED group in profiles/license_groups.

Patch will follow.

[Comment 1 Ulrich Müller 2012-10-31 17:45:49 UTC]

Created attachment 327874 [details, diff]
Add check for deprecated licenses

Attached patch works for me.

Please review especially the third hunk of the patch; maybe there's a better way for suppression of output than tampering with portage.util.noiselimit.

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2012-10-31 21:33:10 UTC]

Thanks, this is in git:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=658c0fd5940b9547cbdf09d4d4ea6552cfbd542a

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2012-11-01 17:19:16 UTC]

i wonder why bother.  grep the tree, fix all occurrences, then delete the license.  then repoman will error out if someone tries to commit a new ebuild with it because the license doesn't exist.

[Comment 4 Hanno Böck 2012-11-01 19:36:55 UTC]

@SpanKY:
The reason we discussed such an option in the license team is that we feel unable to fix the whole as-is-issue on our own. This license has been abused as a "we take as-is everytime we don't know what to put into LICENSE, no matter if it makes any sense" by too many devs over a very long time. There are hundreds of packages that need to be checked.
Thus we considered a repoman warning a good way to sign devs that there's something they should look after. When this is trimmed down to a decent size, we'll take care of the rest.

[Comment 5 Zac Medico 2012-12-08 18:25:24 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.1.11.33 and 2.2.0_alpha144.