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

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

I found this bugreport while tracking down this lintian complaint.  I'm
not sure the warning is useful.  Just consider the examples inside
DEP5 itself.  As far as I understand, those wouldn't be compliant with
this check -- example 3 and 4 have multiple 'License: GPL-2+' statements
with different text.

For me lintian complained about the two GPL-3+ licensed block
in the 'libidn2-0' package:

https://sources.debian.net/src/libidn2-0/0.10-2/debian/copyright/

I think the approach I'm using in that package is useful: the comments
for the two blocks of GPL-3+ licensed files are different because the
copyrights are different and the origins of the files are different.  I
never read DEP5 saying this isn't permitted.  If I'm mistaken, maybe
this aspect of DEP5 could be clarified.

Maybe it helps to consider this question: What kind of problem was this
check intended to identify?

/Simon

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