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

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Hi David, Martin, and everybody,

regarding the tag "missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright", I think, like
Martin, that it should not be triggered by multi-line License fields in the
header paragraph.

The specification states: "If there are no remaining lines, then all of the
short names or short names followed by license exceptions making up the first
line must be described in stand-alone License paragraphs."  Conversely, if the
License field has multiple lines, then there is no need for a stand-alone
license paragraph.  The fact that License fields in header paragraphs are used
for a different purpose than License fields in Files paragraphs does not change
that point.

Have a nice week-end,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan