Bug#970711: False positive: globbing-patterns-out-of-order extra/readline/* */CMakeLists.txt

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi Otto,

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 2:03 AM Otto Kekäläinen <otto@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