Bug#867042: lintian: new tag: emacsen-common-without-dh-elpa

[David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>]

Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:

>
> CCing David, who wrote the code that adds the Built-Using header, but
> I'm pretty sure that it is indeed there for GPL compliance purposes.
>
> dh-elpa adds emacsen-common maintscripts to packages built using
> dh-elpa, and (according to the copyright file of dh-elpa) those scripts
> are under the GPL.

Oh, that was not my intent. I just wanted to be able to sort out problems introduced by bad
maintainer scripts. It sounds like we should

- explicitely permissively license the maintainer scripts
- drop the built-using header (perhaps adding a custome header, or just
  making sure the version info is available other places.

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