Re: [GNU-linux-libre] potential issue with packages embedding waf

[Karl Goetz]

On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:19:05 +0100
Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:

> Karl Goetz wrote:

> >>> I'm not sure the best way to get a current list of packages
> >>> embedding waf. An expensive way would be to extract all packages
> >>> and search for it - i can do it , but rather only if needed.
> >> Can we trust Debian to have done their homework well [2]?
> > > Its a filename based list.
> 
> That's probably most of them. Other than that, expensive is the only
> way afaict. I wonder if FOSSology catches these blobs?

i expect it could, as long as you can feed it a pattern to match
against (eg, part of the waf code shipped in packages).
thanks,
kk

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