Bug#652380: missing-license-text-in-dep5-copyright when missing Files:
* Julian Taylor <jtaylor.debian@googlemail.com>, 2011-12-16, 22:47:
this copyright emits the missing-license-text-in-dep5-copyright warning
which is a bit confusing as the actual issue is the missing Files: tag.
Format: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5
Upstream-Name: python-gd
Source: http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/gdmodule.html
Copyright: 1995, Richard Jones <richard@bofh.asn.au>
License: BSD
License: BSD
etc
W: python-gd source: missing-license-text-in-dep5-copyright paragraph 2 bsd
Agreed, missing-license-text-in-dep5-copyright doesn't make much sense.
We should probably remove the tag and emit
unknown-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright instead.
However, we have a bigger problem with paragraphs like this:
| Copyright: 2042, J. Random Hacker
| License: BSD-6-clauses
| Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
| modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
| are met: blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and blah.
It's ambiguous: it could be a files paragraph with the "Files" field
accidentally omitted[0], or it could be a stand-alone license paragraph
with an extra "Copyright" field.
[0] If I recall correctly, if was perfectly legal in older DEP-5
versions to do skip it; "Files: *" was implicit in such case.
--
Jakub Wilk
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