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Bug#769818: Bug#766118: lintian: False positive for “missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright”



Hi,

Le 03/04/2015 19:25, Martin Erik Werner a écrit :

> I'm seeing this same warning without the back-reference to header, for
> example this copyright file:
> 
> ###
> Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
> Upstream-Name: td
> Source: http://example.com
> License: dog
>  This is dog license
> 
> Files: debian/*
> Copyright: someone
> License: other
>  This is other license
> ###
> 
> ....triggers:
> W: td source: missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright dog (paragraph
> at line 7)
> 
> Which is, as far as I read the policy, a definite false positive, since
> the "dog" license is specified.

You may have missed: “The Copyright and License fields in the header
paragraph may complement but do not replace the Files paragraphs.”

https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#header-paragraph

Regards

David

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