Bug#888001: Bug#762261: lintian: introduce a inexistent-file-in-dep5-copyright rather confusing

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Hi Mattia,


> >  Files: specific-name
> >  License: GPL-3
> 
> So this paragraph should already (please check if you have simple way
> to!) cause tag unused-file-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright to appear.

To 100% clarify; this is because whilst the file exists in this example,
it should be "covered" by the "*" in "Files: *" below it?

> >  Files: *
> >  License: GPL-3
> >
> >  Files: file-does-not-exist
> >  License: GPL-3
> 
> This one should trigger the new tag I'm proposing.
> OTOH I think unused-file-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright is also emitted for
> this one, so it should stop emitting
> unused-file-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright and move to
> inexistent-file-in-dep5-copyright instead.

I hate name arguments (!) but I think it's partly the names that are
making this harder than it "should" to understand. How about (at least
for now) "entry-does-not-match-any-files-in-package" for this last one
and (again, just for this discussion) "entry-covered-by-another-entry".

Terrible names, I know, but just to make the clarifications easier!


Regards,

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