Hi Jonas! * Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>, 2015-05-21, 21:30:
The following triggers missing-license-text-in-dep5-copyright and missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright:Files: debian/* Copyright: 2014, Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> License: GPL-3+ License-Grant: This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. . This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.[…]License: GPL-3+ License-Reference: /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3I believe that to be a false positive: File format 1.0 requires a License paragraph to have a License field (which is always satisfied), but does not mandate said License field to be multi-line.
The specification says: “If there are no remaining lines [in the License field], then all of the short names or short names followed by license exceptions making up the first line must be described in stand-alone License paragraphs.”
I don't believe this requirement is satisfied in your copyright file.Also, it says: “This field should include all text needed in order to fulfill both Debian Policy's requirement for including a copy of the software's distribution license (12.5)”, so I don't think you can move the relevant information to the License-Grant or License-Reference fields.
-- Jakub Wilk