Bug#766118: lintian: False positive for “missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright”
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On 2014-10-21 01:54, Ben Finney wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.28
> Severity: normal
>
> The check for “missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright” apparently
> assumes that any license must have its own separate “License”
> paragraph.
>
> This restriction does not match Debian policy for the DEP-5 format;
> the stand-alone “License” paragraph is not required, since the full
> license terms can be in the “Files” paragraph in its “License” field.
>
> An example of a package where this check is giving a false positive is
> <URL:https://lintian.debian.org/full/ben+debian@benfinney.id.au.html#lojban-common_1.5_x2bdfsg.1-2>.
> Each “License” field contains the full license information, and no
> separate “License” paragraph is needed. The Lintian tag
> “missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright” should not be triggered
> when this is the case.
>
Hi Ben,
It is because you added the "License" to the "header" paragraph[0][1].
It is unclear to me that this counts as a "stand-alone" license
paragraph, but Lintian was coded with the assumption that it does not.
Keep in mind that the license field in the "header" paragraph has a
special meaning compared to license fields in other paragraphs[2].
~Niels
[0]
https://alioth.debian.org/scm/loggerhead/collab-maint/lojban-common/lojban-common.debian/view/head:/debian/copyright
[1]
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#file-syntax
[2]
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#header-paragraph
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