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

[Sune Vuorela <reportbug@pusling.com>]

On Thursday 03 January 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.


Yeah. I have seen those - and it is also what I think I would do one day.

/Sune