Bug#779676: dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique check is too strict or too severe.

2015-07-21 Thread Javi Merino
On Sun, 7 Jun 2015 17:30:02 -0500 Steve M. Robbins st...@sumost.ca wrote: On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 07:13:12AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: I think that the dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique tag should either: - reduce its severity, as just an advice for readability, or - only be

Bug#779676: dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique check is too strict or too severe.

2015-06-07 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 07:13:12AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: I think that the dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique tag should either: - reduce its severity, as just an advice for readability, or - only be issued when the same short name is used with a different description. Have to

Bug#779676: dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique check is too strict or too severe.

2015-04-20 Thread Simon Josefsson
I found this bugreport while tracking down this lintian complaint. I'm not sure the warning is useful. Just consider the examples inside DEP5 itself. As far as I understand, those wouldn't be compliant with this check -- example 3 and 4 have multiple 'License: GPL-2+' statements with different

Bug#779676: dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique check is too strict or too severe.

2015-03-06 Thread Charles Plessy
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: I think that the dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique tag should either: - reduce its severity, as just an advice for readability, or - only be issued when the same short name is used with a different

Bug#779676: dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique check is too strict or too severe.

2015-03-06 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: Package: lintian Version: 2.5.30+deb8u3 Severity: normal Dear Lintian maintainers, thank you for your support of the machine-readable copyright format. Regarding the tag dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique, I

Bug#779676: dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique check is too strict or too severe.

2015-03-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.30+deb8u3 Severity: normal Dear Lintian maintainers, thank you for your support of the machine-readable copyright format. Regarding the tag dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique, I think that it is either too strict or too severe. The specification does not