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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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