[debian-mysql] Bug#494668: debian/copyright and EXCEPTIONS-CLIENT.gz duplicates and differing

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

Package: mysql-dfsg-5.0
Version: 5.0.51a-11
Severity: minor

Hi,

The various binary packages of mysql-dfsg-5.0 ship
/usr/share/doc/*/EXCEPTIONS-CLIENT.gz
The contents of this file are also contained in the file copyright in that 
same dir in accordance to Debian policy.

Because the content is already in debian/copyright I believe that this file 
should not be installed separately in each of the packages but rather left 
out. It gets especially confusting because copyright and EXCEPTIONS-CLIENT.gz 
are of different versions and its unclear which one applies. On detailed 
inspection they turn out to be the same legally but that confusion need not 
exist in the first place.

I think this is similar to but not detected by 
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/extra-license-file.html


cheers,
Thijs
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