Package: lintian Version: 2.5.97 Severity: wishlist Lintian currently has some checks about appstream-metadata (the AppStream metainfo xml files shipped with some software). It also has some checks about debian/copyright.
The AppStream metainfo files have a member named metadata_license, as documented here: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-metadata_license It would be great if lintian could notice that metadata_license doesn't match the indicated license in debian/copyright. The gnupg2 source package version 2.2.9-1 has this mismatch because i was sloppy. I'll fix it shortly (by relicensing the file to match what is in d/copyright), but i'd love it if lintian could have helped me catch my sloppiness earlier :) --dkg -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (200, 'unstable-debug'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.31.1-4 ii bzip2 1.0.6-9 ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1 ii dpkg 1.19.0.5+b1 ii file 1:5.34-2 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-7 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.62-2 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1 ii libclone-perl 0.39-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12 ii libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.24.1-7 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.74-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.72+repack-1 ii man-db 2.8.4-2 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.2-7 ii t1utils 1.41-2 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages lintian recommends: pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none> Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.5 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2 ii libtext-template-perl 1.53-1 -- no debconf information
