Package: lintian Version: 2.5.26 Severity: normal Dear Lintian Hackers,
the new space-in-std-shortname-in-dep5-copyright tag causes a lot of false positive, mostly with packaged Perl modules, as most of them are licensed under the same terms as Perl itself, i.e. under the Artistic License as well as the GPLv1 or newer. Usually this is declared as follows in debian/copyright: Files: * Copyright: 2013, Axel Beckert <a...@deuxchevaux.org> License: GPL-1+ or Artistic License: Artistic This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License, which comes with Perl. . On Debian systems, the complete text of the Artistic License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic'. License: GPL-1+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version. . On Debian systems, the complete text of version 1 of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-1'. (Example taken from librun-parts-perl.) Lintian claims for the above cited debian/copyright excerpt: N: The license header contains a short name with a space, which does not N: conform to the specification. N: N: Refer to N: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ for N: details. If I check http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ for details, it tell's me: 1) "First line: an abbreviated name for the license, or expression giving alternatives" 2) Example 1. tri-licensed files Files: src/js/editline/* Copyright: 1993, John Doe 1993, Joe Average License: MPL-1.1 or GPL-2 or LGPL-2.1 License: MPL-1.1 [LICENSE TEXT] License: GPL-2 [LICENSE TEXT] License: LGPL-2.1 [LICENSE TEXT] So IMHO, lintian is clearly wrong here (and hence likely also for most of the over 2900 Perl modules packaged in Debian). -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (110, 'experimental'), (109, 'buildd-unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.24.51.20140903-1 ii bzip2 1.0.6-7 ii diffstat 1.58-1 ii file 1:5.19-1 ii gettext 0.19.2-2 ii hardening-includes 2.5+nmu1 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b2 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.38-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.37-1+b1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.13 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+b1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.09-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.64-1 ii man-db 2.6.7.1-1 ii patchutils 0.3.3-1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.20.0-6 ii t1utils 1.37-2.1 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libautodie-perl 2.25-1 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-3+b1 ii perl 5.20.0-6 ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.20.0-6 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.17.13 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b2 ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1 ii libyaml-perl 1.09-1 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
