On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 04:24:19AM +0000, Adam Roses Wight wrote: > * Not sure why the copyright file is not linting. In the documentation, I > see that repeated licenses only need to be specified once. [2] There are > three files with the same license, and I only give the standalone paragraph > for the third. The second file causes a lint warning! Possibly a bug in > the lintian job? > [2] > https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#stand-alone-license-paragraph
Solved by reading the lintian source. To reuse a license, it must be declared as a License: short-name and full text, but with no Files. I think the docs at [2] should be updated to mention this fact. -a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150524045515.gb14...@ludd.net
