Bug#497346: lintian should warn about references to symlinked common-licenses files
clone 497346 -1
reassign -1 debian-policy
blocks 497346 -1
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2008/8/31 Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>:
> 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.
I do in fact agree that there should be some way to refer to the
latest and greatest version of the licence, but IMHO the main
reference should be to the specific version mentioned in the copyright
file.
Maybe a symlink called 'GPL-latest' could be added (plus one for LGPL
and another one for the GFDL).
>
> 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.
Better cloning and blocking so we don't forget to implement the check
at any later time.
>
> --
> Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
>
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