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Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.26
Severity: normal
Dear Lintian Hackers,
the new space-in-std-shortname-in-dep5-copyright tag causes a lot of
false positive, mostly with packaged Perl modules, as most of them are
licensed under the same terms as Perl itself, i.e. under the Artistic
License as well as the GPLv1 or newer.
Usually this is declared as follows in debian/copyright:
Files: *
Copyright: 2013, Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org>
License: GPL-1+ or Artistic
License: Artistic
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the Artistic License, which comes with Perl.
.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the Artistic License can be
found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic'.
License: GPL-1+
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
any later version.
.
On Debian systems, the complete text of version 1 of the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-1'.
(Example taken from librun-parts-perl.)
Lintian claims for the above cited debian/copyright excerpt:
N: The license header contains a short name with a space, which does not
N: conform to the specification.
N:
N: Refer to
N: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ for
N: details.
If I check
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ for
details, it tell's me:
1) "First line: an abbreviated name for the license, or expression
giving alternatives"
2) Example 1. tri-licensed files
Files: src/js/editline/*
Copyright: 1993, John Doe
1993, Joe Average
License: MPL-1.1 or GPL-2 or LGPL-2.1
License: MPL-1.1
[LICENSE TEXT]
License: GPL-2
[LICENSE TEXT]
License: LGPL-2.1
[LICENSE TEXT]
So IMHO, lintian is clearly wrong here (and hence likely also for most
of the over 2900 Perl modules packaged in Debian).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (110, 'experimental'), (109, 'buildd-unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.24.51.20140903-1
ii bzip2 1.0.6-7
ii diffstat 1.58-1
ii file 1:5.19-1
ii gettext 0.19.2-2
ii hardening-includes 2.5+nmu1
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b2
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.38-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.37-1+b1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.13
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.194-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-2+b1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.09-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.64-1
ii man-db 2.6.7.1-1
ii patchutils 0.3.3-1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.20.0-6
ii t1utils 1.37-2.1
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libautodie-perl 2.25-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-3+b1
ii perl 5.20.0-6
ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.20.0-6
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.17.13
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b2
ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1
ii libyaml-perl 1.09-1
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: lintian
Source-Version: 2.5.27
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lintian, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 760642@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> (supplier of updated lintian package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
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Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 22:48:36 +0200
Source: lintian
Binary: lintian
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.5.27
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
Description:
lintian - Debian package checker
Closes: 612583 751945 756158 757068 760642 760677 760714 760987 761125
Changes:
lintian (2.5.27) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Summary of tag changes:
+ Added:
- bad-exception-format-in-dep5-copyright
- changed-by-address-is-root-user
- exclusive-runtime-tests-field
- maintainer-address-is-root-user
- source-contains-prebuilt-doxygen-documentation
- uploader-address-is-root-user
- useless-autogenerated-doxygen-file
.
* checks/cruft.pm:
+ [BR] Fix a few false positives is for javascript source-is-missing.
+ [BR] Detect prebuilt doxygen documentation.
* checks/fields.pm:
+ [JW] Fix incorrectly anchored regexps. (Closes: #760987)
* checks/files.pm:
+ [BR] Detect useless doxygen generated file. (Closes: #751945)
* checks/manpages.desc:
+ [BR] Improve documentation of manpage-has-errors-from-man.
(Closes: #757068).
* checks/menu-format.pm:
+ [BR] Fix a false positive in desktop-mime-but-no-exec-code.
(Closes: #760677).
* checks/source-copyright.pm:
+ [BR] Fix false positive for space-in-std-shortname-in-dep5-copyright
with alternative licenses. (Closes: #760642).
+ [BR] Fix false positive for with exception syntax.
+ [BR] Fix false positive of
wildcard-matches-nothing-in-dep5-copyright. (Closes: 761125)
* checks/testsuite.{desc,pm}:
+ [BR] Fix false positive missing-runtime-tests-field.
(Closes: #760714).
+ [BR] Print line in case of error.
.
* data/fields/metapackages:
+ [BR] Add qt4-default and qt5-default as metapackage.
(Closes: #756158).
.
* lib/Lintian/Check.pm:
+ [BR] Detect package being built as user root.
(Closes: #612583).
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