[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Comments regarding rust-svgtypes_0.4.1-1_multi.changes

[Andrej Shadura]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 at 12:49, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> wrote:
>
> Quoting Andrej Shadura (2019-01-20 11:52:06)
> > On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 at 11:28, Thorsten Alteholz
> > <ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Andrej,
> > >
> > > I marked the package for accept, but please take care of:
> > >  W: rust-svgtypes source: dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique (paragraph at line 28)
> > >  W: rust-svgtypes source: dep5-copyright-license-name-not-unique (paragraph at line 32)
> > >  W: rust-svgtypes source: missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright apache-2.0 (paragraph at line 22)
> > >  W: rust-svgtypes source: missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright mit (paragraph at line 22)
> >
> > Thanks, but I’m not sure I understand what is it complaining about.
>
> Perhaps (if you didn't know that one already) this little trick helps:
>
>   echo 'W: rust-svgtypes source: missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright apache-2.0 (paragraph at line 22)' | lintian-info

Very funny :) I know what the tag means, I don’t understand why this
warning is being issued. My only idea is that it doesn’t like the bit
stating the dual licensing terms:

Files: *
Copyright: 2018—2019 Evgeniy Reizner <razrfalcon at gmail.com>
License: MIT or Apache-2.0
 Licensed under either of
 .
 - Apache License, Version 2.0
   ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
 - MIT license
   ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
 .
 at your option.
 .
 Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
 for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0
license, shall be
 dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

>From my reading of the copyright format, this is not disallowed, but I
was able to silence the warning by inserting Comment: before this
blurb.

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrej