Bug#681616: lintian: False positive: unused-license-paragraph.. when two licenses are given and described in different places
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.8
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
A copyright file with this snippet:
###
Files: *
Copyright: Lor Em
License: custom and Foo
This is some custom license terms.
.
Mentions that Foo license also applies.
License: Foo
This is the standard Foo license.
###
...causes lintian to report "unused-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright" (provided no one else references the Foo license).
I think that this should be a valid layout, though I'm unsure if there's any definite answer in the spec.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.22-6.1
ii bzip2 1.0.6-3
ii diffstat 1.55-3
ii file 5.11-1
ii gettext 0.18.1.1-9
ii hardening-includes 2.2
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.26+b1
ii libc-bin 2.13-33
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.31-1+b2
ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.4.3
ii libemail-valid-perl 0.190-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.91-1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1
ii liburi-perl 1.60-1
ii locales 2.13-33
ii man-db 2.6.2-1
ii patchutils 0.3.2-1.1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.14.2-12
ii unzip 6.0-6
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.4.3
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.69-2
pn libtext-template-perl <none>
ii man-db 2.6.2-1
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-1
-- no debconf information
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