Package: lintian Version: 2.5.44 Followup-For: Bug #765166 The following License section also causes a false positive: ############# License: GFDL-1.1+ Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. ############# The exact lintian error is: E: vera source: license-problem-gfdl-invariants debian/copyright invariant part is: with no invariant sections, with no front-cover texts, and with no back-cover texts. comment: upstream comments: AFAICT, according to [0], the above license is OK. Adding a separate warning mentioning that the DEP5 license name should be GFDL-NIV-1.1+ in the above case would help. [0] https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/gfdlinvariant -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_CA.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.26-10 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8 ii diffstat 1.61-1 ii file 1:5.25-2 ii gettext 0.19.7-2 ii hardening-includes 2.8+nmu2 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b5 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.57-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.38-1+b1 ii libdata-alias-perl 1.20-1+b1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.7 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.198-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.94-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.413-1+b1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-8 ii libperl5.22 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.22.2-1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.71-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.41-6+b1 ii man-db 2.7.5-1 ii patchutils 0.3.4-1 ii perl 5.22.2-1 ii t1utils 1.39-2 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii dpkg 1.18.7 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b1 ii perl 5.22.2-1 ii perl-modules-5.22 [libautodie-perl] 5.22.2-1 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.18.7 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-1 ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1 -- no debconf information -- |_)|_/ Ryan Kavanagh | Debian Developer | \| \ https://ryanak.ca/ | GPG Key 4A11C97A
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