[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.2.1-2-g62527bc

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 62527bcc268999c8290347383a6ff1d53b626fe9
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Feb 1 16:06:04 2009 +0000

    Accept "License-Alias: Perl" as meaning "under the same terms as Perl"
    
    * checks/copyright-file:
      + Treat the new copyright file format's "License-Alias: Perl" as
        indicating that the package is licensed under the same terms as Perl.
        Thanks, gregor herrmann.  (Closes: #513831)

diff --git a/checks/copyright-file b/checks/copyright-file
index 0e28944..fbfbd72 100644
--- a/checks/copyright-file
+++ b/checks/copyright-file
@@ -153,7 +153,8 @@ if (m,usr/share/common-licenses/(GPL|LGPL|BSD|Artistic)\.gz,) {
 # Allow generic GPL references for packages licensed under the same terms as
 # Perl for now.  Perl references GPL version 1, which isn't in
 # common-licenses.
-if (m,(usr/share/common-licenses/(L?GPL|GFDL))[^-],i && !m,as Perl itself,i) {
+if (m,(usr/share/common-licenses/(L?GPL|GFDL))[^-],i && !m,as Perl itself,i
+    && !m,License-Alias:\s+Perl,) {
     my $ref = $1;
     if (m,\b(any|or)\s+later(\s+version)?\b,i) {
 	tag "copyright-refers-to-symlink-license", $ref;
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 814543b..dccaf9f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 lintian (2.2.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
+  * checks/copyright-file:
+    + [ADB] Treat the new copyright file format's "License-Alias: Perl" as
+      indicating that the package is licensed under the same terms as Perl.
+      Thanks, gregor herrmann.  (Closes: #513831)
+
   * lib/Util.pm:
     + [ADB] Localise a use of $_ in control file parsing to avoid overwriting
       it and leading to uninitialized value warnings in check scripts.

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