Proper separator character to license list #6
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I just forked and did this myself. I also modified the output: it's just package_name|license1|license2| ... It's easier for me, if this tool just concentrates on the concern of licenses and outputs it in an easy-to-parse format, and I can get other package information from the existing dpkg tool. I didn't create a pull request, since others probably want something different. But feel free to take ideas from my fork. Maybe options for different output formats and separator characters? Then my fork won't be needed anymore. |
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Currently the list of licenses is space-separated. The problem with this is that some licenses have spaces in their names.
It would be easier for further processing, if the separator was some character that does not occur in license names. Maybe it would be best, if the user could specify the chraracter as an optional command-line option. This would make the feature backwards compatible and also make it possible to change the character if there are clashes with some (future) license names.
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