Bug#748771: lintian: False positive for license-problem-gfdl-invariants

["Andreas Tille" <tillea@t-online.de>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.22.1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream fixed pending

Hi,

there was a false positive for

E: emboss source: license-problem-gfdl-invariants doc/manuals/admin.tex invariant part is: url{http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html , 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

See details at

   https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/05/msg00762.html

The issues is fixed in Git as confired here

   https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/05/msg00776.html

This bug report is just for the record to let other lintian users know.

Kind regards and thanks for maintaining lintian

      Andreas.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (5, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                       2.24.51.20140425-1
ii  bzip2                          1.0.6-5
ii  diffstat                       1.58-1
ii  file                           1:5.18-1
ii  gettext                        0.18.3.2-1
ii  hardening-includes             2.5
ii  intltool-debian                0.35.0+20060710.1
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                0.1.29+b1
ii  libarchive-zip-perl            1.37-2
ii  libclass-accessor-perl         0.34-1
ii  libclone-perl                  0.36-1
ii  libdpkg-perl                   1.17.9
ii  libemail-valid-perl            1.193-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl           0.03-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                0.92-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl         0.33-2
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-1
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl       0.06~01-2
ii  libtimedate-perl               2.3000-2
ii  liburi-perl                    1.60-1
ii  man-db                         2.6.7.1-1
ii  patchutils                     0.3.3-1
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]      5.18.2-4
ii  t1utils                        1.37-2

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii  libperlio-gzip-perl             0.18-2
ii  perl-modules [libautodie-perl]  5.18.2-4

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  dpkg-dev               1.17.9
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.71-1+b1
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.46-1
ii  libyaml-perl           0.84-1
ii  xz-utils               5.1.1alpha+20120614-2

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