Bug#608866: lintian: False positive: extra-license-file usr/games/rott-sitelicense

[Fabian Greffrath <fabian@greffrath.com>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.4.3
Severity: normal

Hi,

in the pkg-games SVN repository I have modified the rott package to build an
additional variant of the game that plays the CD Site License Version data
files. The corresponding binary is 'usr/games/rott-sitelicense' and lintian
complains it has found an extra license file. Sure, the file name contains the
"license" string, but it is really just another variant of a game. Maybe
lintian should skip files in /usr/bin, /usr/games, etc. or even binary files at
all in this check.

Best Regards,
Fabian



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