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[lintian] 01/01: Improve description of dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique



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commit e0acc5651d4b3807ea9940fc7b81a15706f99757
Author: Bastien ROUCARIÈS <roucaries.bastien+debian@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Jan 3 13:40:12 2016 +0100

    Improve description of dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique
    
    Signed-off-by: Bastien ROUCARIÈS <roucaries.bastien+debian@gmail.com>
---
 checks/source-copyright.desc | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 debian/changelog             |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/checks/source-copyright.desc b/checks/source-copyright.desc
index 1806d79..ffce963 100644
--- a/checks/source-copyright.desc
+++ b/checks/source-copyright.desc
@@ -258,6 +258,23 @@ Info: This paragraph defines an already defined license.
  .
  According to the specification, short license names are required to be
  unique within a single copyright file.
+ .
+ This tag could be raised by something like this:
+ | Files: filea ...
+ | Copyright: 2009, ...
+ | License: LGPL-2.1
+ |  This program is free software;
+ |         ...
+ |
+ | Files: fileb ...
+ | Copyright: 2009, ...
+ | License: LGPL-2.1
+ |  This program is free software;
+ |  ...
+ .
+ In this case, you redefine LGPL-2.1 license. You should use
+ a stand-alone paragraph or merge the two files (using a single
+ paragraph).
 
 Tag: invalid-escape-sequence-in-dep5-copyright
 Severity: normal
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index dd5f172..7e1f50f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ lintian (2.5.40) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * checks/source-copyright.desc:
     + [JW] Apply patch from Mattia Rizzolo to update the machine-readable
       copyright format specification URL.  (Closes: #809248)
+    + [BR] Improve description text of dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique.
+      (Closes: #809651).
 
   * data/spelling/corrections*:
     + [JW] Add more corrections.

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