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scan-copyrights provides different results on different runs

Background

In some repositories, each different run of scan-copyrights provides a different outcome.

Reproducibility

How often the issue is hit when repeating the steps to reproduce and changing nothing?

Put the in the most appropriate entry:

  1. always
  2. often, but not always
  3. rarely

Impact of bug

This issue makes our pipelines to generate lots of useless commits, which create conflicts and make it impossible to have a stable version of the package.

Outcomes

TBD

Management data

This section is for management only, it should be the last one in the description.

/cc @em @balasubramanian @sudarshan @wlozano

Phabricator link: https://phabricator.apertis.org/T11010

Edited by Dylan Aïssi