Bug#924581: lintian: license-problem-gfdl-invariants false positive in src:linux's fdl-appendix.rst

["Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.9.1~bpo9+1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-CC: ansgar@debian.org, ben@decadent.org.uk, ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

Ansgar wrote:

> Ben Hutchings writes:
> > On Wed, 2019-03-13 at 12:07 +0000, Debian FTP Masters wrote:
> >> linux source: lintian output: 'license-problem-gfdl-invariants
> >> Documentation/media/uapi/fdl-appendix.rst invariant part is:
> >> published by the free software .. foundation, with no invariant
> >> sections, no front-cover texts .. and no back-cover texts',
> >> automatically rejected package.
> >> linux source: If you have a good reason, you may override this lintian tag.
> >
> > We keep getting false positives for this, because lintian doesn't
> > recognise the "no invariant sections" part with markup.  This should
> > not be an auto-reject.
> 
> I've removed it from the list of auto-rejects for now[1].  Also CC'ed
> the lintian maintainers to make them aware of the problem (if they
> aren't already).
> 
> Ansgar
> 
>   [1] 
> https://salsa.debian.org/ftp-team/dak/commit/44fe84b9e24c59ac932f303cd25f1df3b8a20e82

(We were not aware.) Filing bug so this doesn't get lost…


Regards,

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