Bug#513946: lintian: should not tag copyright-refers-to-versionless-license-file when using 'GPL-2+'
Evgeni Golov <sargentd@die-welt.net> writes:
> currently lintian will tag a source with
> copyright-refers-to-versionless-license-file when one refers to a
> license symlink and lintian can't find \b(any|or)\s+later(\s+version)?\b
> in the copyright file.
>
> That is imho wrong, esp with the new copyright format:
> Files: foo
> Copyright: bar
> License: GPL-2+
> That says foo is licensed under gpl v2 or later.
>
> The attached patch against git solves the issue for me.
I suspect there's still arguably a bug in such a package, since this would
imply that the upstream license statement wasn't cut and pasted into the
debian/copyright file, as is recommended best practice even with the new
copyright format. If it were, that phrase would still be there.
However, if so, that's really a separate issue and this tag isn't the
right one to apply. So this patch looks good to me. I'll go ahead and
apply it.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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