I did some further testing with the example https://salsa.debian.org/debian/podman-toolbox
Lintian currently warns: W: golang-github-containers-toolbox source: globbing-patterns-out-of-order debian/gocode/src/github.com/acobaugh/osrelease/* debian/* debian/gocode/src/github.com/acobaugh/osrelease/.travis.yml [debian/copyright:15] W: golang-github-containers-toolbox source: globbing-patterns-out-of-order debian/gocode/src/github.com/acobaugh/osrelease/* debian/* debian/gocode/src/github.com/acobaugh/osrelease/LICENSE [debian/copyright:15] W: golang-github-containers-toolbox source: globbing-patterns-out-of-order debian/gocode/src/github.com/acobaugh/osrelease/* debian/* debian/gocode/src/github.com/acobaugh/osrelease/README.md [debian/copyright:15] W: golang-github-containers-toolbox source: globbing-patterns-out-of-order debian/gocode/src/github.com/acobaugh/osrelease/* debian/* debian/gocode/src/github.com/acobaugh/osrelease/osrelease.go [debian/copyright:15] W: golang-github-containers-toolbox source: globbing-patterns-out-of-order debian/patches/* debian/* debian/patches/0001-Generate-completions-without-fakeroot.patch [debian/copyright:15] W: golang-github-containers-toolbox source: globbing-patterns-out-of-order debian/patches/* debian/* debian/patches/0002-Do-not-use-versioned-go-module.patch [debian/copyright:15] W: golang-github-containers-toolbox source: globbing-patterns-out-of-order debian/patches/* debian/* debian/patches/0005-meson-build-riscv.patch [debian/copyright:15] W: golang-github-containers-toolbox source: globbing-patterns-out-of-order debian/patches/* debian/* debian/patches/0006-Add-unofficial-Debian-and-Ubuntu-images.patch [debian/copyright:15] W: golang-github-containers-toolbox source: globbing-patterns-out-of-order debian/patches/* debian/* debian/patches/0007-add-support-for-loongarch.patch [debian/copyright:15] W: golang-github-containers-toolbox source: globbing-patterns-out-of-order debian/patches/* debian/* debian/patches/series [debian/copyright:15] W: golang-github-containers-toolbox source: superfluous-file-pattern debian/gocode/src/github.com/acobaugh/osrelease/* [debian/copyright:11] lrc says: # lrc : Versions: licenserecon '7.0' licensecheck '3.3.9-1' Parsing Source Tree .... Reading d/copyright .... Running licensecheck .... d/copyright | licensecheck Apache-2.0 | FSFAP NEWS GPL-2+ | BSD-3-clause debian/gocode/src/github.com/acobaugh/osrelease/LICENSE Apache-2.0 | CC0-1.0 test/system/libs/bats-assert/LICENSE Apache-2.0 | CC0-1.0 test/system/libs/bats-assert/package.json Apache-2.0 | CC0-1.0 test/system/libs/bats-support/LICENSE The first one was purely a reordering issue, which isn't obvious looking at the debian/copyright file at first. After applying fix: --- a/debian/copyright +++ b/debian/copyright @@ -2,16 +2,10 @@ Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ Upstream-Name: toolbox Source: https://github.com/containers/toolbox/ -Files: - * - debian/patches/* +Files: * Copyright: 2018-2020 Red Hat, Inc. License: Apache-2.0 -Files: debian/gocode/src/github.com/acobaugh/osrelease/* -Copyright: 2017 Andrew Cobaugh -License: BSD-3-Clause - Files: debian/* Copyright: 2020 Hayley Hughes <[email protected]> @@ -19,6 +13,14 @@ Copyright: 2021 Andrej Shadura <[email protected]> License: GPL-2+ +Files: debian/patches/* +Copyright: 2018-2020 Red Hat, Inc. +License: Apache-2.0 + +Files: debian/gocode/src/github.com/acobaugh/osrelease/* +Copyright: 2017 Andrew Cobaugh +License: BSD-3-Clause ..we get: # lrc : Versions: licenserecon '7.0' licensecheck '3.3.9-1' Parsing Source Tree .... Reading d/copyright .... Running licensecheck .... d/copyright | licensecheck Apache-2.0 | FSFAP NEWS Apache-2.0 | CC0-1.0 test/system/libs/bats-assert/LICENSE Apache-2.0 | CC0-1.0 test/system/libs/bats-assert/package.json Apache-2.0 | CC0-1.0 test/system/libs/bats-support/LICENSE Hence I think it would be very nice if lrc could warn that stanzas are out of order and need to be fixed before the license comparison can be correct.
