RFE: check more than the first 1024 bytes of a file?

[scop]

At https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034341#c10 rpmlint didn't find the wrong FSF address in a file. It turned out that apparently it only peeks at the first 1024 bytes.

Depending on how this check is implemented, it could either check more than 1024 bytes or add a first pass that would search for "License" or "terms" or "Free Software Foundation" before loading more of the file for applying the regex in a second pass.

Original comment by: mschwendt

[scop]

• Milestone: 1.6 --> 1.7

Original comment by: scop

[scop]

• Milestone: 1.7 --> future

Original comment by: scop