Bug#897402: lintian: false-positive of spelling-error-in-copyright on duplicate word from license key

[Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.84
Severity: normal

Hi

the following lintian output is omitted:

I: pymol-data: spelling-error-in-copyright UIUC UIUC (duplicate word) UIUC
N: 
N:    Lintian found a spelling error in the copyright file. Lintian has a list
N:    of common misspellings that it looks for. It does not have a dictionary
N:    like a spelling checker does. If this is a spelling error in the
N:    upstream license, in supporting email messages, or a case of Lintian
N:    being confused by non-English text, add an override.
N:    
N:    Severity: minor, Certainty: possible
N:    
N:    Check: copyright-file, Type: binary

>From the following completely valid statement:

License: UIUC
 UIUC Open Source License
 .
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
 ... etc ...

I assume lintian is concatenating the first line of the License field with the
subsequent lines; however that first line is a licence short name while
subsequent lines are the text of the licence. It's perfectly sensible for
duplication such as this to appear.

(Additionally, lintian should state the line number of the offending duplicate
in its output to save the maintaier searching for it within the source.)

cheers
Stuart