The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 8543ed2db3e1efd74d4f2fd8126d9570dbe33d73
Author: Niels Thykier <[email protected]>
Date: Sat Aug 20 11:06:57 2011 +0200
Fixed F-P "extra-license-file" for liblicense
This means an exception for manpages, static libraries, .pc-, elf-
and pyshared-data-files.
diff --git a/checks/files b/checks/files
index 4df987c..6c1a58a 100644
--- a/checks/files
+++ b/checks/files
@@ -820,11 +820,18 @@ foreach my $file (@{$info->sorted_index}) {
# Ignore extra license files in examples, since various package
# building software includes example packages with licenses.
and ($operm & 0111) == 0
- and not $file =~
m/\.(?:el|[ch]|py|cc|pl|pm|hi|p_hi|html|php|rb|xpm|png|jpe?g|gif|svg|dtd|ui)$/
+ and not $file =~
m/\.(?:el|[ch]|py|cc|pl|pm|hi|p_hi|html|php|rb|xpm|png|jpe?g|gif|svg|dtd|ui|pc)$/
and not $file =~ m,^usr/share/zope/Products/.*\.(?:dtml|pt|cpt)$,
and not $file =~ m,/under\S+License\.docbook$,
and not $file =~ m,^usr/share/doc/[^/]+/examples/,
+ and not $file =~ m,^usr/share/man/(?:[^/]+/)?man\d/,o # liblicense has
a manpage called license
+ and not $file =~ m,^usr/share/pyshared-data/,o # liblicense
(again)
and not defined $link) {
+
+ # okay, we cannot rule it out based on file name; but if it is an elf
or a static
+ # library, we also skip it. (In case you hadn't guessed; liblicense)
+ my $fileinfo = $info->file_info->{$file};
+ next if $fileinfo && ($fileinfo =~ m/^[^,]*\bELF\b/) or ($fileinfo =~
m/\bcurrent ar archive\b/);
tag 'extra-license-file', $file;
}
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 0174e89..86cf4a6 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ lintian (2.5.3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
be the first dependency if it is only included in the perl
from experimental. Thanks to Dominic Hargreaves for the
report and the patch. (Closes: #637793)
+ * checks/files:
+ + [NT] Added exceptions to "extra-license-file" for manpages,
+ static libraries, .pc-, elf and pyshared-data-files. This
+ covers all the false-positives currently found in the liblicense
+ package. (Closes: #617901)
* collection/fields{,.desc}:
+ [NT] Removed, no longer used.
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