Include better debug diagnostics

[armijnhemel]

Short Description

I am trying to find out why certain rules are not applying correctly. The current license diagnostics are not sufficient for that. Although --license-text-diagnostics includes some information I would want to see more of the internal stuff, such as the internal representation of the rule that was matched (the cleaned up version).

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Describe the Update

See short description.

How This Feature will help you/your organization

I am seeing many matches that are incorrect, or slightly incorrect, even though it seems that the correct rules are present in scancode. I want to find out why these don't match, so existing rules can be tightened, or new rules can be added.

Possible Solution/Implementation Details

I would like to see a feature where I can dump the internal representation of the license text that was matched. I am thinking of a representation of the license text, that has been cleaned up (whitespace, punctuation, and so on), so I can see what was matched against.

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