Bug#608866: lintian: False positive: extra-license-file usr/games/rott-sitelicense
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
> 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.
Yeah, that seems like a reasonable idea to me. If the license file is a
script or binary (or, really, even if it's just executable, since we
already diagnose executable text files elsewhere), there's something weird
enough going on that Lintian can't really warn.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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