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authorFrancois Perrad <fperrad@gmail.com>2014-07-18 15:43:36 +0200
committerThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>2014-07-18 19:45:20 +0200
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support/scripts/scancpan: automatically populate LICENSE_FILES
This commit improves the scancpan script to automatically populate the LICENSE_FILES variable using informations available in the Perl package MANIFEST file. Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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@@ -53,9 +53,6 @@ requested package, and also recursively for all dependencies specified by
CPAN. You should still manually edit the result. In particular, the
following things should be checked.
-* The +PERL_FOO_BAR_LICENSE_FILES+ variable is not set, because metacpan
- doesn't have this information. Also, the name of the license file(s)
- varies between packages, and some don't even have a license file.
* If the perl module links with a shared library that is provided by
another (non-perl) package, this dependency is not added automatically.
It has to be added manually to +PERL_FOO_BAR_DEPENDENCIES+.
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