Hi dkg, On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 9:45 AM Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> wrote: > > W: balsa source: inconsistent-appstream-metadata-license > balsa.appdata.xml (cc0-1.0 != gpl-2+)
I do not see that tag when running lintian's development version against balsa from unstable: $ frontend/lintian -EvIL +classification /mirror/debian/pool/main/b/balsa/balsa_2.5.9-4.dsc N: Using profile debian/main. N: Starting on group balsa/2.5.9-4 N: Unpacking packages in group balsa/2.5.9-4 N: Finished processing group balsa/2.5.9-4 N: ---- N: Processing source package balsa N: (version 2.5.9-4, arch source) ... C: balsa source: debhelper-compat-level 12 C: balsa source: debhelper-compat-virtual-relation 12 C: balsa source: debian-build-system dh C: balsa source: debian-watch-file-standard 4 C: balsa source: package-is-team-maintained pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org 3 C: balsa source: patch-system quilt C: balsa source: rules-does-not-require-root C: balsa source: source-format 3.0 (quilt) C: balsa source: standards-version 4.5.0 C: balsa source: vcs git C: balsa source: vcs-uri https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/balsa.git > Rather, i think lintian should avoid warning about license information > in a file that is not part of the source package. Lintian should not complain, for a source package, about files not shipped within it. Was the file perhaps included accidentally? Kind regards Felix Lechner
