Bug#497346: lintian should warn about references to symlinked common-licenses files
Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com> writes:
> The following snippet is pretty common and always, IMHO, wrong:
>> On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
>> Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.
>
> It should either refer to GPL-2 or GPL-3. The same applies to GFDL and LGPL.
I made that argument and lots of people disagreed with me. I don't think
this is something we can impose with Lintian until you can build consensus
within the project; many people believe this reference to be just fine for
a package that's covered under "or any later version" terms.
If you want to pursue this, the bug should probably be reassigned to
debian-policy, since that's where any specific policy should be
documented.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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