Ansgar wrote:

(We were not aware.) Filing bug so this doesn't get lost…


Regards,

I don't think it is practicable for lintian to recognise arbitrary
markup within the sentence, which is why I previously overrode the
warning for other files rather than opening a bug.  So my complaint was
not that lintian warned at all, but that this was treated as being a
sufficiently reliable check as to trigger an auto-reject.

Ben.

Hi Ben,

As it happens, Lintian already strips LaTeX markup before doing this
check (or at least something is ringing a bell in my memory right
now...) so doing it for .rst too is probably both easy and practical.

Nod, had grokked that. :)


Regards,

Hi guys,

This bug also affects png-definitive-guide.

The license text says (from copyright.html):

Permission is granted to copy, distribute, and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A
copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free
Documentation License".

Lintian says:

E: png-definitive-guide source: license-problem-gfdl-invariants
copyright.html invariant part is: with no invariant sections, e-mail
from laurie petrycki, 20030726: no front-cover texts, and no
back-cover texts. end

(yes, the litian message has an e-mail and ends with "end").

Regards,

Eriberto

Hi,

<!-- e-mail from Laurie Petrycki, 20030726: -->
no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
<!-- end -->

Lintian should probably ignore the HTML comments, and not issue the tag.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner

[1] https://sources.debian.org/src/png-definitive-guide/20060430-2/copyright.html/#L95-L97