Bug#420558: extra-license-file check shouldn't consider .dtd files
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.28
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
I don't think we should consider .dtd files when looking for a license
file. Various mozilla programs ship this, and it isn't truly a license
file. The attached patch excludes them.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.17-3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.43-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.25 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.20-4 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.16.1-1 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.4.4-2 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5-pe 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- checks/files.old 2007-04-23 04:06:43.000000000 -0400
+++ checks/files 2007-04-23 04:07:12.000000000 -0400
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@
# because a package had a HTML form for licenses called like that.
# Another exception is made for various picture formats since
# those are likely to just be simply pictures.
- and not $file =~ m/\.(el|c|h|py|cc|pl|pm|html|php|rb|xpm|png|jpe?g|gif|svg)$/
+ and not $file =~ m/\.(el|c|h|py|cc|pl|pm|html|php|rb|xpm|png|jpe?g|gif|svg|dtd)$/
and not defined $link) {
tag "extra-license-file", "$file";
}
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