Package: lintian Version: 2.62.0 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I have multiple sets of files in my library that are under the same license, and that license is not in /usr/share/common-license. When I tried to add a License paragraph for this license at the beginning of the copyright file, I would get lintian warnings: "missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright". i.e. warnings if shared license paragraph appears before a License: line referencing that license Moving License paragraph to end of copyright file fixed the warnings, but warnings were confusing and not clear how to resolve. Either License paragraphs are allowed in arbitrary place in copyright file, OR warning should be more meaningful regarding location of shared license paragraph. Thanks! Aaron -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers focal-updates APT policy: (500, 'focal-updates'), (500, 'focal-security'), (500, 'focal') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.6.7-050607-generic (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.34-6ubuntu1 ii bzip2 1.0.8-2 ii diffstat 1.63-1 ii dpkg 1.19.7ubuntu3 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7ubuntu3 ii file 1:5.38-4 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-10build1 ii gpg 2.2.19-3ubuntu2 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.36build3 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.67-2 ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1 ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-3build3 ii libclone-perl 0.43-2 ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.19-1build1 ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-1build1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.7ubuntu3 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1 ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1 ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-1 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-5 ii libio-async-loop-epoll-perl 0.20-1 ii libio-async-perl 0.75-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-2 ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004000-1 ii liblist-compare-perl 0.53-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1build5 ii libmoo-perl 2.003006-1 ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-1 ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1 ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.108-1 ii libsereal-decoder-perl 4.011+ds-1build1 ii libsereal-encoder-perl 4.011+ds-1build1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3200-1 ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1 ii libtype-tiny-perl 1.008001-2 ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-1build1 ii liburi-perl 1.76-2 ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0134+dfsg-1build1 ii libxml-writer-perl 0.625-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.81+repack-1 ii man-db 2.9.1-1 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.30.0-9build1 ii t1utils 1.41-3 ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1build5 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> pn libtext-template-perl <none> -- no debconf information
