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

[Martin Erik Werner <ienorand@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 10:12:06 -0400 =?UTF-8?Q?David_Pr=c3=a9vot?= <
taffit@debian.org> wrote:
> I assumed what lintian is actually pointing is the missing “Files:
*”
> paragraph (instead of inaccurately using the header paragraph to
> document the main license), or any variant of it (e.g., documenting
> every files or directories in their own “Files” paragraph, as
debian/*
> already is).

This is not the case though, since even if a Files: * field is present,
this warning was triggered.

In newer versions of lintian, this warning has changed, so the
following 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: *
Copyright: someone
License: other
 This is other license
###

Now reports
W: cn source: dep5-file-paragraph-reference-header-paragraph dog
(paragraph at line 7)

Which is as far as I see still the same false positive.

-- 
Martin Erik Werner <ienorand@gmail.com>