Package: lintian Version: 2.5.25 Severity: wishlist Hi,
some known licenses supported by the copyright-format 1.0 [1] are not in /usr/share/common-licenses and thus have to be copy-pasted verbatim into debian/copyright. Since their name is well-defined in the spec, lintian could check whether the content that was pasted into debian/copyright is indeed word-by-word the same license as the short license name indicates. This would supersede the heuristic solution of bug#757545 which decides whether or not the full license was pasted by its length. A stricter version of this check could even make sure that indentation is done correctly and fix bug#700970 There are three blockers for implementing this (quoted from Niels Thykier): 1) our current data-file setup does not support it, so it would have to be extended to handle it (so we can have one license per file) 2) performance/correctness of the comparison (I'd prefer not getting more huge regexes that turns out to have obscene runtime on "some corner case that we failed to test before releasing it") 3) the problem of reporting it to the user: we have no decent way of presenting the diff Performance concerns could be addressed by checking a checksum of the normalized forms (collapsed whitespace etc) of the original license and the version in debian/copyright. Only if the checksum differs, more analysis would be done. Since problem 2) and 3) remain unaddressed, filling this bugreport for a future in which lintian is able to handle both cases. cheers, josch [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#AEN294 -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.24.51.20140617-1 ii bzip2 1.0.6-5 ii diffstat 1.58-1 ii file 1:5.19-1 ii gettext 0.18.3.2-3 ii hardening-includes 2.5 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.37-2 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.37-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.10 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.194-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-2 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.09-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.62-1 ii man-db 2.6.7.1-1 ii patchutils 0.3.3-1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.18.2-6 ii t1utils 1.37-2 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libautodie-perl 2.25-1 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-3 ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.18.2-6 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.17.10 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b1 ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1 ii libyaml-perl 0.95-1 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
