Package: lintian Version: 2.4.3 Severity: wishlist It would be cool if lintian would issue a warning if it finds the terms "GNU Public License" (instead of GNU General Public License") or "GNU Lesser Public License" (instead of GNU Lesser General Public License") in the debian/copyright or elsewhere in the source code or documentation.
Real life example (at least as of now): http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/gnustep-examples/current/copyright -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (110, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.20.1-16 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.53-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.10 Debian package development tools ii file 5.04-5 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen ii libipc-run-perl 0.89-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2.1 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat ii liburi-perl 1.54-2 module to manipulate and access UR ii locales 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: National L ii man-db 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-17 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-1 Text::Template perl module ii man-db 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager -- 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
