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Bug#497346: lintian should warn about references to symlinked common-licenses files



tag 497346 patch
thanks

>
> I'd say severity: normal, certainty: either possible or wild-guess if we
> can match on the "or any later version" phrase in the copyright file,
> depending on how well we do the matching.  If "or any later version" is
> present, I think we should still warn with severity: pedantic, since I
> think the user should still be pointing to the version of the GPL stated
> in the license, not some random later version.

Attached mbox implements the checks. I checked the regex against lots of the 
installed packages and it appears to be fine.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net

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