Bug#779676: dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique check is too strict or too severe.

[Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.30+deb8u3
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Lintian maintainers,
>
> thank you for your support of the machine-readable copyright format.
>
> Regarding the tag dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique, I think that it
> is either too strict or too severe.
>
> The specification does not require the use of stand-alone License paragraphs
> when the same license short name is used in multiple Files paragraphs.  Hence
> it is only an error if two Files paragraphs use the same short name for a
> License, but with a different description.
>
> I think that the dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique tag should either:
>
>  - reduce its severity, as just an advice for readability, or
>  - only be issued when the same short name is used with a different description.

Could you pin point the exact verse of the specification ?

Thanks

> Have a nice day,
>
> --
> Charles Plessy
> Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
>