Ben Hutchings writes: > On Wed, 2019-03-13 at 12:07 +0000, Debian FTP Masters wrote: >> linux source: lintian output: 'license-problem-gfdl-invariants >> Documentation/media/uapi/fdl-appendix.rst invariant part is: >> published by the free software .. foundation, with no invariant >> sections, no front-cover texts .. and no back-cover texts', >> automatically rejected package. >> linux source: If you have a good reason, you may override this lintian tag. > > We keep getting false positives for this, because lintian doesn't > recognise the "no invariant sections" part with markup. This should > not be an auto-reject.
I've removed it from the list of auto-rejects for now[1]. Also CC'ed the lintian maintainers to make them aware of the problem (if they aren't already). Ansgar [1] https://salsa.debian.org/ftp-team/dak/commit/44fe84b9e24c59ac932f303cd25f1df3b8a20e82

