Bug#748375: lintian: false-positive gfdl with invariant section?
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.22.1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
while running lintian on my build of sound-juicer 3.11.90 (in experimental
svn branch) I got the following output:
E: sound-juicer source: license-problem-gfdl-invariants help/el/el.po invariant part is: version 1.1 or any ~ later version published by the free software foundation; with the invariant sections being list their ~ titles, with the front-cover texts</ ~ link> being list, and with the back- ~ cover texts being list
N:
N: The given source file is licensed under GFDL with invariant section or
N: front-cover or back-cover text.
N:
N: GFDL with invariant sections, front-cover or back-cover texts are not
N: suitable for main.
N:
N: Should this file be multi-licensed, please override the tag.
N:
N: Should this be a false-positive, please report a bug.
N:
N: Refer to http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/gfdlinvariant and
N: http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001 for details.
N:
N: Severity: serious, Certainty: possible
N:
N: Check: cruft, Type: source
N:
E: sound-juicer source: license-problem-gfdl-invariants help/en_GB/en_GB.po invariant part is: version 1.1 or any ~ later version published by the free software foundation; with the invariant sections being list their ~ titles, with the front-cover texts</ ~ link> being list, and with the back- ~ cover texts being list
E: sound-juicer source: license-problem-gfdl-invariants help/sv/sv.po invariant part is: version 1.1 or any ~ later version published by the free software foundation; with the invariant sections being list their ~ titles, with the front-cover texts</ ~ link> being list, and with the back- ~ cover texts being list
The translation files (po) contains a paragraph with licensing information
as as string that should be translated. It is not the license for the file
itself.
Also the text in for example el.po explicitly states
"... with no Invariant .....".
c.f. https://git.gnome.org/browse/sound-juicer/plain/help/el/el.po
These files seems to contain outdated (commented out) msgid strings
which includes some statement about an invariant section which
probably could be scrubbed. (Once the translations are updated
there will dissapear I guess.)
I think this is a false positive....
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.24.51.20140425-1
ii bzip2 1.0.6-5
ii diffstat 1.58-1
ii file 1:5.18-1
ii gettext 0.18.3.2-1
ii hardening-includes 2.5
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b1
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.37-2
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.36-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.9
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.193-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-2
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.06~01-2
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.60-1
ii man-db 2.6.7.1-1
ii patchutils 0.3.3-1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.18.2-3
ii t1utils 1.37-2
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libautodie-perl 2.25-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-2
ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.18.2-3
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.17.9
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b1
ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1
pn libyaml-perl <none>
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
-- no debconf information
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