Bug#776796: lintian: False positive unused-file-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

Hi Josue!

Thanks for the bug report.

* Josue Ortega <josueortega@debian.org.gt>, 2015-02-01, 13:58:
> Lintian is returning a false positive 
> unused-file-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright exactly when at the first 
> paragraph in the Files field debian/* is specified.

Without a concrete example, I can only guess that you did something like 
this:

Files: debian/*
Copyright: 2015 Random Developer <randomdd@debian.org>
License: FooPL

Files: *
Copyright: 2015 Random Hacker <hacker@example.net>
License: BarPL


Here the following rule matters: "The last paragraph that matches a 
particular file applies to it." And since the last paragraph matches 
everything, the first one is unused.

The solution is to reorder the paragraphs: "More general paragraphs 
should therefore be given first, followed by more specific overrides."

--
Jakub Wilk