On 09/06/26 10:24 pm, Jesse Rhodes wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Lintian Maintainers,
>
> As of 29 May 2026 [1] the following licenses are included in base-files:
> AGPL-3.0, Artistic-2.0, BSL-1.0, CC-BY-3.0, CC-BY-4.0, CC-BY-SA-3.0,
> CC-BY-SA-4.0, GFDL-1.1 and OFL-1.1.
>
> However, lintian 2.136.2 still emits e.g. W:
> incomplete-creative-commons-license cc-by-4.0 when referring to the text
> in /usr/share/common-licenses instead of appending the whole license
> text to d/copyright.
Looks like many new licenses have been added. For other licenses that were
already present in base files, lintian issues tags like
copyright-not-using-common-license-for-apache2
copyright-file-contains-full-apache-2-license
I think it would make sense to completely get rid of the
"incomplete-creative-commons-license"
tag and just add in these tags for all the new ones.
Doing that and adding tests for all of this is a bit of work, and would take a
bit of time. Patches
welcome, ofcourse.
For now, I've opened an MR (and planning to merge it) for this
(incomplete-creative-commons-license)
tag to not be triggered if "usr/share/common-licenses/CC-*" is mentioned (the
check is for cc-*).
> I wonder if it would make sense for there to be some mechanism for the
> lintian team to be CC on proposals like this, maybe a BTS tag, so it
> doesn't fall to individual contributors to notice?
Someone should add an affects on lintian or x-debbugs-cc this list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lint-maint/
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/1136090
Best,
Nilesh
