On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 10:12:56PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Hi Josue! > > Thanks for the bug report. > > * Josue Ortega <josueort...@debian.org.gt>, 2015-02-01, 13:58: > >Lintian is returning a false positive > >unused-file-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright exactly when at the first > >paragraph in the Files field debian/* is specified. > > Without a concrete example, I can only guess that you did something like > this: > > Files: debian/* > Copyright: 2015 Random Developer <rando...@debian.org> > License: FooPL > > Files: * > Copyright: 2015 Random Hacker <hac...@example.net> > License: BarPL > > > Here the following rule matters: "The last paragraph that matches a > particular file applies to it." And since the last paragraph matches > everything, the first one is unused. > > The solution is to reorder the paragraphs: "More general paragraphs should > therefore be given first, followed by more specific overrides." > > -- > Jakub Wilk
Jakub, Thanks for your response, Sorry for not give you a concret example, but yes, that's the case. And that is the way I resolved it. Is this a new behaviour? since it's the first time I see it with this copyright file and I hadn't it changed it for a while. IMHO the order should not matter. Thanks agagin. Cheers. --- Josue Ortega «Happy Hacking» http://josueortega.org
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