From 03414ca09a4fc67a61f2f42918f45631075b613d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carmen Bianca BAKKER <carmenbianca@fsfe.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2023 00:41:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "Verify that path is absolute"

This reverts commit c61704056343216049dd7fe7e968fe075cb0edcd.
---
 src/reuse/_config.py | 11 -----------
 tests/test_config.py | 20 ++++++--------------
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/reuse/_config.py b/src/reuse/_config.py
index 33cbcbdc8..cdbebff58 100644
--- a/src/reuse/_config.py
+++ b/src/reuse/_config.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from gettext import gettext as _
-from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any, Dict, Optional
 
 import yaml
@@ -34,9 +33,6 @@ class Config:
         default_factory=dict
     )
 
-    def __post_init__(self) -> None:
-        self._validate_paths_are_absolute()
-
     @classmethod
     def from_dict(cls, value: Dict[str, Any]) -> "Config":
         """Factory method to create a Config from a dictionary."""
@@ -72,13 +68,6 @@ def from_yaml(cls, text: str) -> "Config":
         """
         return cls.from_dict(yaml.load(text, Loader=yaml.Loader))
 
-    def _validate_paths_are_absolute(self) -> None:
-        for path in self.override_annotate_options:
-            if not Path(path).expanduser().is_absolute():
-                raise ValueError(
-                    _("Path '{}' must be an absolute path.").format(path)
-                )
-
 
 def _annotate_options_from_dict(value: Dict[str, str]) -> AnnotateOptions:
     return AnnotateOptions(
diff --git a/tests/test_config.py b/tests/test_config.py
index eeea8d488..aeb57ac7c 100644
--- a/tests/test_config.py
+++ b/tests/test_config.py
@@ -5,11 +5,8 @@
 """Tests for some _config."""
 
 from inspect import cleandoc
-from pathlib import Path
 
-import pytest
-
-from reuse._config import AnnotateOptions, Config
+from reuse._config import Config
 
 # REUSE-IgnoreStart
 
@@ -49,11 +46,11 @@ def test_config_from_dict_override():
             "default_name": "Jane Doe",
             "overrides": [
                 {
-                    "path": "/foo",
+                    "path": "foo",
                     "default_name": "John Doe",
                 },
                 {
-                    "path": "/bar",
+                    "path": "bar",
                     "default_license": "MIT",
                 },
             ],
@@ -61,14 +58,9 @@ def test_config_from_dict_override():
     }
     result = Config.from_dict(value)
     assert result.global_annotate_options.name == "Jane Doe"
-    assert result.override_annotate_options["/foo"].name == "John Doe"
-    assert result.override_annotate_options["/bar"].name is None
-    assert result.override_annotate_options["/bar"].license == "MIT"
-
-
-def test_config_only_absolute_path():
-    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
-        Config(override_annotate_options={Path("hello"): AnnotateOptions()})
+    assert result.override_annotate_options["foo"].name == "John Doe"
+    assert result.override_annotate_options["bar"].name is None
+    assert result.override_annotate_options["bar"].license == "MIT"
 
 
 def test_config_from_yaml_simple():