Bug#757545: lintian: warn if the License paragraph in debian/copyright for known licenses not in /usr/share/common-licenses is too short

[Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun@googlemail.com>]

Hi,

On 09.08.2014 07:38, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> some licenses are rather long and thus it could be easily detected
> whether their "License" paragraph in debian/copyright is too short to
> possibly contain them.
>
> Here some examples of licenses which are probably long enough such that
> this heuristic would have a low amount of false positives but are not
> shipped in /usr/share/common-licenses:
>
>   - AGPL3
>   - LaTeX Project Public License
>   - Python Software Foundation License
>   - Mozilla Public License
>   - Creative Commons licenses
>
> the user would then get a message like: "your License stanza for AGPL3+
> is only 20 lines long and thus probably not the full text of the AGPL"

I'd also welcome such a lintian tag.

The ftp-masters would probably even want to use this tag to 
automatically REJECT uploads [1].

Best regards,
Andreas

1: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/08/msg00113.html