Fwd: scripts/spdxcheck.py's third-party dependencies

[Nicky Chorley <ndchorley@gmail.com>]

Resending to linux-spdx.

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From: Nicky Chorley <ndchorley@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2021 at 20:35
Subject: scripts/spdxcheck.py's third-party dependencies
To: <tglx@linutronix.de>, <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


Hi folks,

On linux-next (tag: next-20210723), running scripts/checkpatch.pl
complains, with e.g.

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 10, in <module>
     import git
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'git'

and the same for ply if you don't have those libraries installed. Would it
be OK to add a pip requirements.txt file, so that people can use that to
install those and not have to manually go hunt them down? In future,
if other Python scripts needed third-party libraries, those could be
listed in the file too (I had a quick look and didn't see any used in the
others).

Apologies if this has already been covered somewhere - I couldn't see
archive links for linux-spdx on vger.kernel.org.

Best,

Nicky