Bug#776796: marked as done (lintian: False positive unused-file-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #776796,
regarding lintian: False positive unused-file-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.30+deb8u3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
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.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_GT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_GT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.25-4
ii bzip2 1.0.6-7+b2
ii diffstat 1.58-1
ii file 1:5.22+15-1
ii gettext 0.19.3-2
ii hardening-includes 2.7
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b2
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.39-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.37-1+b1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.23
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.195-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-2+b1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1.1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.11-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.64-1
ii man-db 2.7.0.2-5
ii patchutils 0.3.3-1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.20.1-4
ii t1utils 1.38-3+b1
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none>
ii perl 5.20.1-4
ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.20.1-4
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.17.23
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b3
ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1
ii libyaml-perl 1.13-1
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
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Close now
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> wrote:
> * Josue Ortega <josueortega@debian.org.gt>, 2015-02-01, 17:17:
>>>>
>>>> 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."
>
> [...]
>>
>>
>> Is this a new behaviour? since it's the first time I see it with this
>> copyright file and I hadn't it changed it for a while.
>
>
> This tag was added in Lintian 2.5.26, released in September 2014. But the
> copyright format specification had the rule about the paragraph order at
> least since 2011.
>
> --
> Jakub Wilk
>
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