lintian: license-problem-gfdl-invariants has false positives (was: Re: linux_5.0.1-1~exp1_multi.changes REJECTED)
- To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
- Cc: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>, lintian-maint@debian.org
- Subject: lintian: license-problem-gfdl-invariants has false positives (was: Re: linux_5.0.1-1~exp1_multi.changes REJECTED)
- From: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 00:33:08 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87h8c6cpu3.fsf_-_@43-1.org>
- In-reply-to: <5b42a61a55596e148286b5e5c9b569e6b5f4d3d2.camel@decadent.org.uk> (Ben Hutchings's message of "Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:18:04 +0000")
- References: <E1h42f3-000Bgv-Mu@fasolo.debian.org> <5b42a61a55596e148286b5e5c9b569e6b5f4d3d2.camel@decadent.org.uk>
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
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