* Josue Ortega <[email protected]>, 2015-02-01, 17:17:
Lintian is returning a false positive
unused-file-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright exactly when at the first
paragraph in the Files field debian/* is specified.
Without a concrete example, I can only guess that you did something
like this:
Files: debian/*
Copyright: 2015 Random Developer <[email protected]>
License: FooPL
Files: *
Copyright: 2015 Random Hacker <[email protected]>
License: BarPL
Here the following rule matters: "The last paragraph that matches a
particular file applies to it." And since the last paragraph matches
everything, the first one is unused.
The solution is to reorder the paragraphs: "More general paragraphs
should therefore be given first, followed by more specific overrides."
[...]
Is this a new behaviour? since it's the first time I see it with this
copyright file and I hadn't it changed it for a while.
This tag was added in Lintian 2.5.26, released in September 2014. But
the copyright format specification had the rule about the paragraph
order at least since 2011.
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Jakub Wilk
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