Bug#827043: RFS: gdbm/1.12-1 ITP
* Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it>, 2016-06-12, 09:54:
there was a gfdl lintian pedantic warning, but seems a false positive,
You are probably[0] referring to:
P: gdbm source: license-problem-gfdl-non-official-text doc/gdbm.info invariant part is: with no invariant sections, no front-cover, and no back-cover texts
P: gdbm source: license-problem-gfdl-non-official-text doc/gdbm.texinfo invariant part is: with no invariant sections, no front-cover, and no back-cover texts
The tag name is not great, and it's debatable whether it's useful (which
is why it's pedantic), but this is true positive.
The tag description is:
The given source file is licensed under GFDL, but using a non-official
text for the "no invariant sections" part.
Please ask upstream to always use (case insensitive): with no Invariant
Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
(IMO it's a bug in Lintian that it treats the text case-insensitively,
because "Invariant Sections", "Front-Cover Texts" and "Back-Cover Texts"
are terms defined in the license and therefore should be spelled exactly
this way. But I digress...)
In the gdbm, you have:
with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover, and no Back-Cover texts.
Note missing "Texts" after "Front-Cover" and lowercase "texts" at the
end.
[0] Please always paste exact output of static analysis tools. This will
help people diagnose the problem without the hassle of downloading
packages and running the tools themselves. Also, the output may vary
with the tool's version, used options, or the phase of the moon.
--
Jakub Wilk
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