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Bug#893326: lintian: check that patch licenses are compatible with licenses of files they modify



On Sun, 2018-03-18 at 16:33 +0000, Chris Lamb wrote:

> How would we even know the license of a file under debian/patches? Looking
> DEP-3 [0] it does not have a `License` field.

DEP-5 lists license information for all of debian/ including patches.
DEP-5 lists license information for all files debian/patches/* touch.

> Perhaps you could mock up an offending entry here so we are 100% certain
> we are talking about the same things.

debian/copyright:
Files: foo.c
License: Apache2

Files: debian/*
License: GPLv2

debian/patches/foo:
--- a/foo.c
+++ b/foo.c

-- 
bye,
pabs

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