Evgeni Golov <[email protected]> writes: > currently lintian will tag a source with > copyright-refers-to-versionless-license-file when one refers to a > license symlink and lintian can't find \b(any|or)\s+later(\s+version)?\b > in the copyright file. > > That is imho wrong, esp with the new copyright format: > Files: foo > Copyright: bar > License: GPL-2+ > That says foo is licensed under gpl v2 or later. > > The attached patch against git solves the issue for me.
I suspect there's still arguably a bug in such a package, since this would imply that the upstream license statement wasn't cut and pasted into the debian/copyright file, as is recommended best practice even with the new copyright format. If it were, that phrase would still be there. However, if so, that's really a separate issue and this tag isn't the right one to apply. So this patch looks good to me. I'll go ahead and apply it. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
