Your message dated Fri, 29 Dec 2017 22:38:07 +0000 with message-id <1514587087.4161251.1219161704.52cb9...@webmail.messagingengine.com> and subject line Re: lintian: when to say: old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file has caused the Debian Bug report #743532, regarding lintian: when to say: old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: lintian Version: 2.5.22.1 Severity: normal Please do not make lintian report this warning of W: old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file if the license synopsis line has "with incorrect FSF address". Here is an example. Lintian reports as: W: ... old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file for debian/copyright containing the following. Files: m4/intltool.m4 Copyright: 2001 Eazel, Inc. License: GPL-2.0+ with incorrect FSF address, and with autoconf exception This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. . This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. . You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. . As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you distribute this file as part of a program that contains a configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program. . On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License Version 2 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'. ---- For me copying "license" text including some associated disclaimer exactly from the original source seems to be the right thing to do. Also, I clearly mark "with incorrect FSF address" in the license synopsis line. I think lintian should not issue this warning if it is properly documented in the license synopsis line. FYI: This debian/copyright is autogenerated here using debmake packaging helper script. So "with incorrect FSF address" is always spelled exactly the same way. I am hoping people to use this dh-make alternative so DEP-5 is easily implemented and -dbg packages are easily made. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.24-5 ii bzip2 1.0.6-5 ii diffstat 1.58-1 ii file 1:5.17-1 ii gettext 0.18.3.2-1 ii hardening-includes 2.5 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.37-2 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.36-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.6 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.192-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-2 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.06~01-2 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-1 ii liburi-perl 1.60-1 ii man-db 2.6.6-1 ii patchutils 0.3.2-3 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.18.2-2+b1 ii t1utils 1.37-2 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libautodie-perl 2.24-1 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-2 ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.18.2-2 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.17.6 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b1 ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1 ii libyaml-perl 0.84-1 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---tags 743532 + wontfix thanks Jakub Wilk wrote: > But the main point of old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file is to > let you know about _upstream_ problem. I agree with this and as this is now many years old (and has almost certainly been fixed upstream?) I am closing this bug. Thank you for reporting this issue. Best wishes, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` [email protected] / chris-lamb.co.uk `-
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