Bug: version 2025.0.1 breaking changes

[leandrodamascena]

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Issue Details

Hello! I'm using licensecheck to check dependencies in a poetry project and the command licensecheck -u poetry:dev --zero is not working anymore. What is the option to check required + dev dependencies in a poetry project using this new version?

Another thing, if I run licensecheck --group dev --zero it just check dev dependencies and a weird thing is happening: it marks licensecheck as an UNKNOW license!

(aws-lambda-powertools-py3.9) ➜  aws-lambda-powertools-v3 git:(dependabot/pip/develop/licensecheck-2025.0.1) ✗ pip list |grep licensecheck
licensecheck                                2025.0.1

(aws-lambda-powertools-py3.9) ➜  aws-lambda-powertools-v3 git:(dependabot/pip/develop/licensecheck-2025.0.1) ✗ licensecheck --group dev --zero |grep license
2025-03-18 09:45:29.703 | WARNING  | licensecheck.checker:resolve_requirements:33 - ('error: Requested extra not found: dev\n', '')
│ program         │ licensecheck │
│ license         │ MIT LICENSE  │
│ project_license │ MIT LICENSE  │
│ ✔          │ license-expression                          │ APACHE-2.0                            │
│ ✖          │ licensecheck                                │ UNKNOWN                            

Expected Behavior

Old commands continues working.

Actual Behavior

Not working

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[leandrodamascena]

Hello! I hope things are going well! Did you had a chance to take a look on this?

[FredHappyface]

Hi thanks for the nudge. Life is super busy atm. Yes there are breaking changes is new versions. I've attempted to document this best I can for now, though this is wip

Please check

https://github.com/FHPythonUtils/LicenseCheck?tab=readme-ov-file#examples-from-the-command-line

https://github.com/FHPythonUtils/LicenseCheck/blob/master/documentation/user/examples.md

And the output of licensecheck --help

[bombsimon]

Thanks for this tool and the documentation, great work!

Just curious since you're linking the docs, is this expected to work? I never had this working before but using 2025.1.0 now with poetry and we define dev dependencies under [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies].

Running licensecheck works just fine with the new uv resolver. However, when I try -g dev as per this issue, I get this warning too, but it does seem to do something different. The output now contains dev dependencies (such as licensecheck itself) but all packages are now printed in SCREAMING-KEBAB-CASE. Also some of the dependencies seen without the group are now gone - but not all.

Just to confirm, is this the expected behavior? I consulted the docs you linked but can't find a way to always include all group, is that possible? Lastly, would your recommended workaround be to swap out poetry to uv for best compatibility?