Package: lintian Version: 2.5.123 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
the description of the License field in https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging- manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#license-field mentions that: « Otherwise [= when the License field is multi-line and not a single line synopsis], this field should either include the full text of the license(s) _or include a pointer to the license file under /usr/share/common-licenses_. » (emphasis mine) Yet currently lintian will always raise missing-license-text-in-dep5-copyright warning when it doesn't find a complete license header. Would it be possible to adapt this check to ignore cases where the License field contains '/usr/share/common-licenses' ? Or even that it references a existing file in /usr/share/common-license. This way Files paragraph like the following would not raise the warning: Files: myfile Copyright: 2019, Someone <[email protected]> License: CC0-1.0 On Debian systems, the full text of the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal license can be found in the file `/usr/share/common-licenses/CC0-1.0’. Thanks, -- Aurélien -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.31.1-11 ii bzip2 1.0.6-9 ii diffstat 1.62-1 ii dpkg 1.19.2 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.2 ii file 1:5.35-2 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-9 ii gpg 2.2.12-1 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.64-1 ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.40-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1 ii libclone-perl 0.41-1+b1 pn libdigest-sha-perl <none> ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.2 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1 ii libio-async-perl 0.72-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b4 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-13 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.76-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.76+repack-1 ii man-db 2.8.5-1 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.28.1-3 ii t1utils 1.41-3 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b5 Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch 2.31.1-11 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b3 ii libtext-template-perl 1.54-1 -- no debconf information
