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Bug#907274: marked as done (lintian: global-files-wildcard-not-first-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright is too agressive)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #907274,
regarding lintian: global-files-wildcard-not-first-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright is too agressive
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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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Dear Helge,

> > It would also mean your package is  ipso facto different from others
> > which — as a general rule — is not a great idea.
> 
> I understand, but sometimes difference is also a good sign.

Indeed, although I feel like we are trading software engineering
clichés now that might be better suited to another venue…  No matter,
let us close this bug report as it is currently not actionable.


Best wishes,

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