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

[Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com>]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> Raphael Geissert writes:
> 
>> So, what's the way to go here?
> 
>> severity:minor when no "or any later version" is used? and
>> severity:pedantic when it is?
>> Or just the former with the severity of the latter?
> 
>> Note: currently the unversioned file names point to the latest version
>> of the licence.
> 
> 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.
> 

Ok. Just so you know, I just wrote the check and had a hard time writing an easy
to read description. As soon as I add a couple of test cases I'll send the
patches.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer
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