composer validate can't find spdx-licenses.json

[Pierre Rudloff]

composer validate crashes with this error:
file_get_contents(/usr/share/php/Composer/../../data/Composer/res/spdx-licenses.json): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

The correct path seems to be /usr/share/php/data/Composer/res/spdx-licenses.json.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: composer 1.0.0~beta2-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-24.43-generic 4.4.10
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Wed Jun 22 20:15:27 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-30 (754 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Mythbuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: composer
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-06-01 (21 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sam Wilson (samwilson.id.au)]

Is there a workaround for this?

[abel (duhl)]

a workaround until this is fixed:

cd /usr/share
sudo ln -s /usr/share/php/data data

[pwaring (launchpad-pwaring)]

Confirmed that this still definitely fails in a clean 16.04 VM. Other composer commands work fine.

[Athos Ribeiro (athos-ribeiro)]

Reproducing this on a clean xenial installation:

# apt install -y composer
# cat <<EOF > composer.json
{
 "name": "foo/bar",
 "description": "foo",
 "license": "GPL-3.0-or-later"
}
EOF
# composer validate

returns:

  [ErrorException]
  file_get_contents(/usr/share/php/Composer/../../data/Composer/res/spdx-licenses.json): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

However, from bionic and on, we get:

./composer.json is valid

Hence, this seems to be fixed since bionic.

Since xenial is no longer under standard support, I am closing this as fixed.