Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5
Hi,
On Monday 09 January 2012 09:04:44 Charles Plessy wrote:
> By January 2012, there are still more than 7,000 binary packages whose
> copyright file refers to a versionless symlink, according to the Lintian
> page
> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/copyright-refers-to-symlink-license.html
That's overly misleading. Copyright tags are emitted on binary packages, but
packages usually ship the same copyright file for all binary packages.
Only counting source packages, the number becomes 3836.
> A new tag was added to Lintian in 2009,
> copyright-refers-to-symlink-license (pedantic). However, despite this
> there are still thousands of packages whose copyright file refers to a
> versionless symlink in 2012.
There are two tags:
* copyright-refers-to-versionless-license-file: severity: normal
* copyright-refers-to-symlink-license: pedantic
The non-pedantic one still hits 316 source packages, based on lintian.d.o
data.
Then again, some things never die unless somebody pokes at them. There's
still one package that triggers copyright-refers-to-old-directory[1].
[1]http://lintian.debian.org/tags/copyright-refers-to-old-directory.html
Cheers,
--
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net
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