Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.97
Severity: normal
This tag wants the wildcard paragraph as first stanza in
debian/copyright. I use(d) to start with the license stanzas, like
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: goobox
Upstream-Contact: Paolo Bacchilega <paobac@src.gnome.org>
Paolo Bacchilega <paobac@svn.gnome.org>
Paolo Bacchilega <paobac@cvs.gnome.org>
Source: https://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/goobox/
License: GPL-2+
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
…
License: GPL-2
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
…
Files: *
Copyright: 2004-2017 Paolo Bacchilega <paobac@src.gnome.org>
License: GPL-2+
…
As per my reading of the sepc this is perfectly valid, however, still flagged by lintian.
So either the spec needs clarification (which I doubt) or the lintian check should be relaxed.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.17.10samd.01 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.31.1-4
ii bzip2 1.0.6-9
ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1
ii dpkg 1.19.0.5+b1
ii file 1:5.34-2
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-7
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.63-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1
ii libclone-perl 0.39-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1
ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12
ii libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.24.1-3+deb9u4
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.74-1
ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.72+repack-1
ii man-db 2.8.4-2
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.2-7
ii t1utils 1.41-2
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none>
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.5
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2
pn libtext-template-perl <none>
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