Package: lintian Version: 2.5.39 I very commonly use multiple license for my debian/* files, e.g. Files: debian/* Copyright: <me> License: <license-1> or <license-2> or ... or <license-n>The licenses used are _all_ licenses occurring in the upstream code, so that whatever patch I or any other Debian maintainer come(s) up with is licensed in a way that it easily can be adopted by upstream.
Since a couple of months ago now, lintian fails on those license blocks due to the multiple licenses being used (my personal and naive interpretation...).
E.g.:[mike@minobo eom.pkg]$ lintian eom_1.12.1-1_amd64.changes (not yet uploaded!!!)
W: eom source: dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique (paragraph at line 195) N: N: This paragraph defines an already defined license. N: N: According to the specification, short license names are required to be N: unique within a single copyright file. N: N: Refer to N: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ for N: details. N: N: Severity: normal, Certainty: possible N: N: Check: source-copyright, Type: source N: W: eom source: dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique (paragraph at line 348)W: eom source: missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright gpl-2+ (paragraph at line 343)
N: N: The files paragraph in the machine readable copyright file references a N: license, for which no standalone license paragraph exists. N: N: Refer to N: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ for N: details. N: N: Severity: normal, Certainty: possible N: N: Check: source-copyright, Type: source N:This also happens with eom_1.10.3-2_amd64.changes as currently in the archives.
If more examples I needed, I may add them (need to look where the above issue happened).
Please note: until the release of Debian jessie, the above issue did not exist in lintian. The warnings started occurring some time after the jessie release. Unfortunately, I did not report the issue immediately by then. (SORRY!)
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