Bug#993613: lintian: Complex regular subexpression recursion limit exceeded in cruft check

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

Package: lintian

Hi,

A bunch of packages run for a very long time and show output similar to that:

    Complex regular subexpression recursion limit (65534) exceeded at
/tmp/Lintian-OK2cEF3W/Lintian/lib/Lintian/Check/Cruft.pm line 760.

This is a known consequence of changes made to the cruft check in this
commit [1] although the source has not been identified. Most likely,
the license parsing will have to be rewritten with modern probability
techniques for text matching or by using a specialized tool. [2]

Kind regards
Felix Lechner

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/3410cb55a647aa3844d5f1b189a6f73975059a74
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReviewTools