Bug#956613: lintian: inconsistent-appstream-metadata-license is confused when appstream metadata file is generated
Hi dkg,
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 9:45 AM Daniel Kahn Gillmor
<dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
>
> W: balsa source: inconsistent-appstream-metadata-license balsa.appdata.xml (cc0-1.0 != gpl-2+)
I do not see that tag when running lintian's development version
against balsa from unstable:
$ frontend/lintian -EvIL +classification
/mirror/debian/pool/main/b/balsa/balsa_2.5.9-4.dsc
N: Using profile debian/main.
N: Starting on group balsa/2.5.9-4
N: Unpacking packages in group balsa/2.5.9-4
N: Finished processing group balsa/2.5.9-4
N: ----
N: Processing source package balsa
N: (version 2.5.9-4, arch source) ...
C: balsa source: debhelper-compat-level 12
C: balsa source: debhelper-compat-virtual-relation 12
C: balsa source: debian-build-system dh
C: balsa source: debian-watch-file-standard 4
C: balsa source: package-is-team-maintained
pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org 3
C: balsa source: patch-system quilt
C: balsa source: rules-does-not-require-root
C: balsa source: source-format 3.0 (quilt)
C: balsa source: standards-version 4.5.0
C: balsa source: vcs git
C: balsa source: vcs-uri https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/balsa.git
> Rather, i think lintian should avoid warning about license information
> in a file that is not part of the source package.
Lintian should not complain, for a source package, about files not
shipped within it. Was the file perhaps included accidentally?
Kind regards
Felix Lechner
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