Bug#756574: lintian: Please consider removing the tag license-problem-gfdl-non-official-text.

[Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.25
> Severity: minor
>
> Dear Lintian maintainers,
>
> thanks for your work on Lintian.  I use it a lot, including the pedantic tags.
>
> For one of them, license-problem-gfdl-non-official-text, I have strong doubts if it will
> ever be useful.  In my understanding from the statistics from the Lintian website,
> hundreds if not thousands of upstream authors would need to be convinced to uppercase
> their GFDL statements.  I think that it will never happen fully.

Dear Charles, the matching is case insensitive, so case is not
important for this tag (it will not fire if the case is only changes).
If it is not clear, could you suggest more appropriate warning?

> For that reason, please remove the tag license-problem-gfdl-non-official-text, which is
> distracting and has no chances to have a significant effect.

It is important for me as lintian developper. For each different
wording I need to add a regex in lintian to check if it is really a
free gfdl.

And moreover it help to catch spelling mistake. I could add this tag
is mainly for lintian developper if needed.

Bastien



> Have a nice day,
>
> --
> Charles Plessy
> Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
>