Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.0
Severity: wishlist
While working on the check for prebuilt binaries in source tarballs I was
thinking about making it severity: minor as having prebuilt binaries around
may cause make to believe it doesn't have to anything on them.
Those cases are usually alleviat
Hi,
There are quite a lot of error messages in lintian.log:
$ grep -v -E "^(X|O|W|N|I|E): " /org/lintian.debian.org/logs/lintian.log
Argument "4\n4" isn't numeric in numeric lt (<) at
/org/lintian.debian.org/root/checks/debhelper line 249.
Argument "4\n4" isn't numeric in numeric lt (<) at
/org/li
Evgeni Golov writes:
> Right, thats why one writes at the end of the file:
> License: GPL-2+
> On Debian Systems ... /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html
for my concern (referenced in the REJECT FAQ), specifically:
| - Its not e
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 01:43:05PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I don't understand what's failing in the code and I've looked at it a
> couple of times now. I think it needs more eyeballs.
Right. I have been a bit snowed under with work lately, but I'm still
around. I provided the patch and feel
[No need to CC me]
2009/2/2 Evgeni Golov :
> On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:26:37 -0600 Raphael Geissert wrote:
>
>> >
>> > I suspect there's still arguably a bug in such a package, since this would
>> > imply that the upstream license statement wasn't cut and pasted into the
>> > debian/copyright file, a
On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:26:37 -0600 Raphael Geissert wrote:
> >
> > I suspect there's still arguably a bug in such a package, since this would
> > imply that the upstream license statement wasn't cut and pasted into the
> > debian/copyright file, as is recommended best practice even with the new
>
Russ Allbery wrote:
> Evgeni Golov writes:
>
>> 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 th
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> # * checks/copyright-file:
> #+ [RA] Treat License: GPL-2+ as "GPL version 2 or later" for the
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# * checks/copyright-file:
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# purposes of the check for a correctly versioned license
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 3f8adb683dd603a7c67f9c7b9663e278154744a4
Author: Russ Allbery
Date: Mon Feb 2 09:41:47 2009 -0800
Add changelog entry for License: GPL-2+ fix
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9a4fb09..f23035d 100644
---
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 6f8f23f61ad85ed887f384e286bf437ebf4b706c
Author: Evgeni Golov
Date: Mon Feb 2 18:09:53 2009 +0100
read $license-X+ as $license X or later in debian/copyright
diff --git a/checks/copyright-file b/checks/copyright-file
index f
Evgeni Golov writes:
> 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:
> File
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
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