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Bug#920180: lintian: missing-license-text-in-dep5-copyright shouldn't be raised for dep5 copyright referring to common-licenses



Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.123
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,


the description of the License field in https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-
manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#license-field mentions that:
«
Otherwise [= when the License field is multi-line and not a single line
synopsis], this field should either include the full text of the license(s) _or
include a pointer to the license file under /usr/share/common-licenses_.
» (emphasis mine)

Yet currently lintian will always raise missing-license-text-in-dep5-copyright
warning when it doesn't find a complete license header.

Would it be possible to adapt this check to ignore cases where the License
field contains '/usr/share/common-licenses' ?
Or even that it references a existing file in /usr/share/common-license.


This way Files paragraph like the following would not raise the warning:

Files: myfile
Copyright: 2019, Someone <someone@example.org>
License: CC0-1.0
 On Debian systems, the full text of the Creative Commons CC0 1.0
 Universal license can be found in the file
 `/usr/share/common-licenses/CC0-1.0’.


Thanks,
--
Aurélien



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                       2.31.1-11
ii  bzip2                          1.0.6-9
ii  diffstat                       1.62-1
ii  dpkg                           1.19.2
ii  dpkg-dev                       1.19.2
ii  file                           1:5.35-2
ii  gettext                        0.19.8.1-9
ii  gpg                            2.2.12-1
ii  intltool-debian                0.35.0+20060710.4
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                0.1.34+b1
ii  libarchive-zip-perl            1.64-1
ii  libcgi-pm-perl                 4.40-1
ii  libclass-accessor-perl         0.51-1
ii  libclone-perl                  0.41-1+b1
pn  libdigest-sha-perl             <none>
ii  libdpkg-perl                   1.19.2
ii  libemail-valid-perl            1.202-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl           0.08-1
ii  libio-async-perl               0.72-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                20180523.0-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl         0.416-1+b4
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-13
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl       0.13-1
ii  libtimedate-perl               2.3000-2
ii  liburi-perl                    1.76-1
ii  libxml-simple-perl             2.25-1
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl           0.76+repack-1
ii  man-db                         2.8.5-1
ii  patchutils                     0.3.4-2
ii  perl                           5.28.1-3
ii  t1utils                        1.41-3
ii  xz-utils                       5.2.2-1.3

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii  libperlio-gzip-perl  0.19-1+b5

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii  binutils-multiarch     2.31.1-11
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.72-3+b3
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.54-1

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