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reuse lint should check existence of folders/files listed in dep5 file

Open misappi opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

Currently, reuse lint does not complain if in the dep5 file folders and/or files are listed that do not exist. If for example, this would be an excerpt on a dep5 file

...
Files: bubbelebu/*
Copyright: ...
License: 
...

but the folder bubbelebu would not exist, reuse lint wouldn't complain about that. But especially, if you have a lot of third-party stuff in your project and a complex dep5 file, it would make sense that reuse lint did these kind of existence checks to keep the dep5 file consistent to the code.

misappi avatar Oct 08 '20 12:10 misappi

I agree, thanks for noticing that!

mxmehl avatar Oct 08 '20 16:10 mxmehl