Bug#497346: lintian should warn about references to symlinked common-licenses files

On Sunday 31 August 2008 23:20:32 Russ Allbery wrote: Raphael Geissert atom...@gmail.com writes: The following snippet is pretty common and always, IMHO, wrong: On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'. It

Re: Bug#497346: lintian should warn about references to symlinked common-licenses files

Raphael Geissert atomo64+deb...@gmail.com writes: Ok. Just so you know, I just wrote the check and had a hard time writing an easy to read description. As soon as I add a couple of test cases I'll send the patches. I'm always happy to massage descriptions. :) -- Russ Allbery

Bug#497346: lintian should warn about references to symlinked common-licenses files

tag 497346 patch thanks I'd say severity: normal, certainty: either possible or wild-guess if we can match on the or any later version phrase in the copyright file, depending on how well we do the matching. If or any later version is present, I think we should still warn with severity:

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Bug#497346: lintian should warn about references to symlinked common-licenses files

clone 497346 -1 reassign -1 debian-policy blocks 497346 -1 thanks 2008/8/31 Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The following snippet is pretty common and always, IMHO, wrong: On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be

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Bug#497346: lintian should warn about references to symlinked common-licenses files

Package: lintian Version: 1.24.4 Severity: wishlist The following snippet is pretty common and always, IMHO, wrong: On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'. It should either refer to GPL-2 or GPL-3. The same

Bug#497346: lintian should warn about references to symlinked common-licenses files

Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The following snippet is pretty common and always, IMHO, wrong: On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'. It should either refer to GPL-2 or GPL-3. The same applies to