[Debian-med-packaging] [bedtools] 01/01: Restore the License field in the header: Lintian is wrong.

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Charles,

could you please explain what purpose the extra license field in the
header might serve?  I do not mind whether lintian is right or wrong
but to me this field is at best redundant since all information is
specified later.  Thus I would at best spent a comment for this piece
of information.

Moreover I think lintian is right since 

   "License is a formatted text field where the first line
    indicates the short name or names of the licenses."

The string "GPL-3+ with runtime exception" is definitely no
short name and should be fixed if you insist that the field
should remain here

Kind regards

       Andreas.

On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 04:42:06AM +0000, Charles Plessy wrote:
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> plessy pushed a commit to branch debian/unstable
> in repository bedtools.
> 
> commit 51721991957a94b449206d50c5f5634b254e96ad
> Author: Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org>
> Date:   Wed Jul 8 13:36:09 2015 +0900
> 
>     Restore the License field in the header: Lintian is wrong.
>     
>     See https://bugs.debian.org/769818#77
> ---
>  debian/copyright | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
> index 439b219..b93e93f 100644
> --- a/debian/copyright
> +++ b/debian/copyright
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>  Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
>  Source: https://github.com/arq5x/bedtools2/archive/v2.24.0.tar.gz
> -Comment: Licenses are GPL-2 and MIT and GPL-3+ with runtime exception and zlib
> +License`: Licenses are GPL-2 and MIT and GPL-3+ with runtime exception and zlib
>   BEDTools combines source code under GPL-2, LGPL-2.1 and MIT licenses, and
>   links to libc6, libgcc, libstdc++ and zlib1g.
>  
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