Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hey,
currently lintian will tag a source with
copyright-refers-to-versionless-license-file
when one refers to a license symlink and lintian can't find
\b(any|or)\s+later(\s+version)?\b
in the copyright file.
That is imho wrong, esp with the new copyright format:
Files: foo
Copyright: bar
License: GPL-2+
That says foo is licensed under gpl v2 or later.
The attached patch against git solves the issue for me.
regards
Evgeni
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>From b8cc161335fed98e57d0a8e359dba32f2f209de1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Evgeni Golov <sarge...@die-welt.net>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 18:09:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] read $license-X+ as $license X or later in debian/copyright
---
checks/copyright-file | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/checks/copyright-file b/checks/copyright-file
index fbfbd72..4c870f4 100644
--- a/checks/copyright-file
+++ b/checks/copyright-file
@@ -156,7 +156,8 @@ if
(m,usr/share/common-licenses/(GPL|LGPL|BSD|Artistic)\.gz,) {
if (m,(usr/share/common-licenses/(L?GPL|GFDL))[^-],i && !m,as Perl itself,i
&& !m,License-Alias:\s+Perl,) {
my $ref = $1;
- if (m,\b(any|or)\s+later(\s+version)?\b,i) {
+ my $license = $2;
+ if (m,\b(any|or)\s+later(\s+version)?\b,i || m,License:
$license-[\d\.]+\+,i) {
tag "copyright-refers-to-symlink-license", $ref;
} else {
tag "copyright-refers-to-versionless-license-file", $ref;
--
1.5.6.5
