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Bug#678639: lintian: DEP-5 and typoes in field names



Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.9
Severity: withlish

On 2012-06-22 15:06, Giovanni Mascellani wrote:
> Dear lintian maintainers.
> 
> My package geogebra has a lintian missing-license-text-in-dep5-copyright
> warning, but the debian/copyright contains the license text. Actually,
> at the same time it has a unused-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright
> information on the same license.
> 
> http://lintian.debian.org/full/pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org.html#geogebra
> 
> I've checked this many times, but could not find any error on my side.
> Could it be a bug in lintian?
> 
> Thanks, Gio.
> 
> (please, Cc: me in replies)

Hi,

This is caused by a typo in field names like this one:
 File: geogebra/properties/*

(it should have been "Files: ").

I have opened a bug for tracking this (it is not the first time I hear
of this issue)...

~Niels




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