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Bug#956613: marked as done (lintian: inconsistent-appstream-metadata-license is confused when appstream metadata file is generated)

Your message dated Mon, 13 Apr 2020 17:47:36 -0400
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and subject line Re: Bug#956613: lintian: inconsistent-appstream-metadata-license is confused when appstream metadata file is generated
has caused the Debian Bug report #956613,
regarding lintian: inconsistent-appstream-metadata-license is confused when appstream metadata file is generated
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.65.0

in balsa 2.6.0, balsa.appdata.xml is generated during the build from
balsa.appdata.xml.in.

While d/copyright correctly indicates that balsa.appdata.xml.in is
CC0-1.0, lintian still complains with:

    W: balsa source: inconsistent-appstream-metadata-license balsa.appdata.xml (cc0-1.0 != gpl-2+)

It seems that to quiet this warning, i would need to add a d/copyright
entry for a file (balsa.appdata.xml) that is not shipped in the source
package, which would be weird and (i think) wrong.

Rather, i think lintian should avoid warning about license information
in a file that is not part of the source package.

Thanks for maintaining lintian in debian!

       --dkg

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On Mon 2020-04-13 09:52:32 -0700, Felix Lechner wrote:
> I do not see that tag when running lintian's development version
> against balsa from unstable:

there are separate issues with the appdata files in 2.5.9 (that have
since been fixed upstream):

   https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/-/merge_requests/22

so the issue only shows up in 2.6.0 (which just landed in unstable
today)

> Lintian should not complain, for a source package, about files not
> shipped within it. Was the file perhaps included accidentally?

ah, i might have gotten confused about the file name due to it being
overwritten during the build.  i do most of my packaging work from a gbp
tree, and that tree has the generated files already pre-stripped (via an
import-orig filter in debian/gbp.conf).

Looks like upstream does in fact ship a copy of these generated files in
the tarball, though, so i probably should mark them in debian/copyright
anyway.

I'm closing this ticket because it looks like i do need to mark the
generated file in d/copyright anyway, which means there's a more obvious
fix for me to do in this packaging.

sorry for the noise!

    --dkg

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