Bug#996093: lintian: detect variant of Lenna image

[Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org>]

Hi,

On 2021-10-13 17:11, Felix Lechner wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 11:45 PM Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org> wrote:
>> However, license-problem-md5sum-non-free-file seems superfluous to me.
>> What do you think?
> I agree. Unfortunately, the two checks are in different places. We
> have the issue elsewhere in Lintian.
> 
> In the future I may separate Lintian's scanning activities from the
> hint issuance, which would allow for post-processing. (Another
> solution, which I like less, would be to integrate the banned hashes
> into Index::Item.) Either way, the hashes are more reliable—plus, the
> banned hash table contains other Lenna images [1]—while the name
> detection is broader and more user-friendly.
> 
> After some contemplation, I left the duplication issue to be solved on
> another day.

Thanks for the explanation. Now I understand that tag duplication
originates from two separate checks. I think that they are fine as they
are - better duplicate than none.

> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/data/cruft/non-free-files

Best wishes,
Andrius