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Re: Some mass-commits ahead / Uploads of packages which haven't been uploaded for a long time



Hi Jonas,

Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Axel Beckert (2013-09-02 08:41:30)
> > Some things which should be fixed in many (at least in one case I 
> > checked and it affects > 1000 of our packages) are the following 
> > lintian warnings:
> > 
> > * wiki-copyright-format-uri
> > * copyright-refers-to-symlink-license
> > * obsolete-field-in-dep5-copyright
> 
> Please be cautious about this:
> 
>  * missing-license-text-in-dep5-copyright
> 
> Don't invent licensing text out of thin air, like this: 
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/libatompub-perl.git;a=commitdiff;h=31412b

I should have been more specific about how I plan to fix the mentioned
issues. Actually I do want to fix _all_ wiki-copyright-format-uri
issues, but only those missing-license-text-in-dep5-copyright which
resulted from the change from "|" to "or" in the specification.

  Files: bla
  License: Artistic | GPL-1+
                    ^

  License: Artistic
   foo

  License: GPL-1+
   bar

triggers missing-license-text-in-dep5-copyright and
unused-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright (IIRC, at least something
similar) after wiki-copyright-format-uri has been fixed, because the
correct form afterwards is:

  Files: bla
  License: Artistic or GPL-1+
                    ^^

  License: Artistic
   foo

  License: GPL-1+
   bar

That's the only way I plan to fix
missing-license-text-in-dep5-copyright and
unused-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright lintian warnings.

Actually "cme fix dpkg-copyright" already does that perfectly.

If those lintian warnings are caused by other means (i.e. may be real
mistakes), I don't plan to fix that with mass-commits. That'd be
insane. :-)

		Regards, Axel
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