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Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.123
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
the description of the License field in https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-
manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#license-field mentions that:
«
Otherwise [= when the License field is multi-line and not a single line
synopsis], this field should either include the full text of the license(s) _or
include a pointer to the license file under /usr/share/common-licenses_.
» (emphasis mine)
Yet currently lintian will always raise missing-license-text-in-dep5-copyright
warning when it doesn't find a complete license header.
Would it be possible to adapt this check to ignore cases where the License
field contains '/usr/share/common-licenses' ?
Or even that it references a existing file in /usr/share/common-license.
This way Files paragraph like the following would not raise the warning:
Files: myfile
Copyright: 2019, Someone <someone@example.org>
License: CC0-1.0
On Debian systems, the full text of the Creative Commons CC0 1.0
Universal license can be found in the file
`/usr/share/common-licenses/CC0-1.0’.
Thanks,
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Aurélien
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.31.1-11
ii bzip2 1.0.6-9
ii diffstat 1.62-1
ii dpkg 1.19.2
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.2
ii file 1:5.35-2
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-9
ii gpg 2.2.12-1
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34+b1
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.64-1
ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.40-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1
ii libclone-perl 0.41-1+b1
pn libdigest-sha-perl <none>
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.2
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1
ii libio-async-perl 0.72-1
ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b4
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-13
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.76-1
ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.76+repack-1
ii man-db 2.8.5-1
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl 5.28.1-3
ii t1utils 1.41-3
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b5
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.31.1-11
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b3
ii libtext-template-perl 1.54-1
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Control: tags -1 - moreinfo
Hi Chris,
Le 22/01/2019 à 13:26, Chris Lamb a écrit :
> tags 920180 + moreinfo
> thanks
>
> Hi Aurélien,
>
>> Files: myfile
>> Copyright: 2019, Someone <someone@example.org>
>> License: CC0-1.0
>> On Debian systems, the full text of the Creative Commons CC0 1.0
>> Universal license can be found in the file
>> `/usr/share/common-licenses/CC0-1.0’.
>
> I can't actually reproduce this. I added the above to the bottom of:
>
> t/tests/source-copyright-dep5-general/debian/copyright
>
> … and then ran:
>
> $ debian/rules runtests onlyrun=source-copyright-dep5-general
Ah yes it does work. :$
I re-ran lintian after making changes in the source package tree and
assumed re-running it would take the changes into account but obviously
it used the .changes from the last build…
Sorry for the noise.
Cheers,
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Aurélien
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