Bug#608866: lintian: False positive: extra-license-file usr/games/rott-sitelicense
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On 2011-01-04 08:59, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.4.3
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
Hey,
> 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
>
> [...]
Thanks for the report; indeed this is a false-positive and I have just
committed a fix for it[1]. Lintian already excluded files in the normal
path directories (usr/bin/, usr/sbin/ ...), but we had forgotten to
exclude usr/games as well.
Excluding all binaries and known scripts might be a good idea, but I
have not deployed that change. Perhaps some of the other Lintian
maintainers can comment on that idea.
~Niels
[1]
http://git.debian.org/?p=lintian/lintian.git;a=commit;h=f7e8118e64e5dedf8933cde2bd1f176441ffdabc
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