Bug#766118: lintian: False positive for “missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright”
On 2014-10-21 07:57, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
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> Hi Ben,
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> It is because you added the "License" to the "header" paragraph[0][1].
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> 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].
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> ~Niels
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> [0]
> https://alioth.debian.org/scm/loggerhead/collab-maint/lojban-common/lojban-common.debian/view/head:/debian/copyright
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> [1]
> https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#file-syntax
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> [2]
> https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#header-paragraph
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>
Please regard this, I hadn't fully understood your original report
apparently.
~Niels
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