Le Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:59:23AM +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES a écrit :
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > For one of them, license-problem-gfdl-non-official-text, I have strong
> > doubts if it will
> > ever be useful. In my understanding from the statistics from the Lintian
> > website,
> > hundreds if not thousands of upstream authors would need to be convinced to
> > uppercase
> > their GFDL statements. I think that it will never happen fully.
>
> Dear Charles, the matching is case insensitive, so case is not
> important for this tag (it will not fire if the case is only changes).
> If it is not clear, could you suggest more appropriate warning?
>
> > For that reason, please remove the tag
> > license-problem-gfdl-non-official-text, which is
> > distracting and has no chances to have a significant effect.
>
> It is important for me as lintian developper. For each different
> wording I need to add a regex in lintian to check if it is really a
> free gfdl.
>
> And moreover it help to catch spelling mistake. I could add this tag
> is mainly for lintian developper if needed.
Hi Bastien,
first, indeed, I misunderstood the long description, which I thought was
advocating case-only changes. Sorry for this. Looking for typos and
confusing rephrasings is good after reading the long description again,
I find it clear.
This said, I have the impression that this Lintian tag is often triggered
with a very frequent variation:
with no invariant sections, with no front-cover texts, and with no
back-cover texts
This variation is found in a large number of GNU packages, which makes me
wonder if it comes from a template, perhaps from the Texinfo system, see:
http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/GNU-Sample-Texts.html
Can you whitelist this variation ? If GNU packages use it by default,
it is hard to consider it “non-official”.
Have a nice day,
Charles
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Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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