Bug#458831: lintian: extra-license-file detects non-license files

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Sune Vuorela <reportbug@pusling.com> writes:

> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.41
> Severity: normal
>
> kdelibs-data contains a bunch of docbook snippets used to point to
> licenses for different licenses and languages.
>
> Such one:
>
> cat
> /usr/share/apps/ksgmltools2/customization/en-GB/entities/underArtisticLicense.docbook
> <para>This program is licensed under the terms of the <ulink
> url="common/artistic-license.html">Artistic License</ulink>.</para>
>
>
> Currently overridden in kdelibs-data, but I guess it is some kind of
> bug in lintian.
>
> $ grep extra-license-file debian/kdelibs-data.lintian  | wc --lines
> 120

Indeed.  Thanks, I cleared up all the docbook stuff for the next release.

I'm not sure what to do with these, since they really are extra copies of
the licenses without any useful change (unlike the *.html versions):

W: kdelibs-data: extra-license-file usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/common/fdl-license
W: kdelibs-data: extra-license-file usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/common/gpl-license
W: kdelibs-data: extra-license-file usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/common/lgpl-license

You could make them symlinks to common-licenses.  That's probably what I'd
do.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>