Bug#906284: Too many false positives?

2018-08-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
I think checking line length for the license text block would be much more discriminative: approx 9% of the 317 currently matching packages would trigger the test (some more than once). I attempted to simulate this change in Lintian with a totally separate hacky script, manually checking over the

Bug#906284: Too many false positives?

2018-08-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Hi folks, sorry for the delay in getting involved. On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 07:43:46AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: Perhaps just looking at the size of the license text (say < 20 lines) would work better? I don't know perl at all, so I can't help write it, but I would be quite surprised if that

Bug#906284: Too many false positives?

2018-08-28 Thread Chris Lamb
tags 906284 + moreinfo thanks Hi Julien, > Perhaps just looking at the size of the license text (say < 20 lines) > would work better? I don't know perl at all, so I can't help write it, > but I would be quite surprised if that wasn't easy to do for someone > with a minimal knowledge of the

Bug#906284: Too many false positives?

2018-08-27 Thread Julien Puydt
Hi, in my previous mail, I asked if that test was worth anything. It's possible to know what packages trigger the test: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/incomplete-creative-commons-license.html I had a look from the start of the list (took the 20 first), and found only 4 where I would say it's