[SOLVED] Fedora 43 - Banner Packaging Tutorial Lint Error

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I’m walking through the Banner Packaging Tutorial and I’ve run into an error that isn’t part of the tutorial (tutorial has example errors). Am I doing something wrong??

fedpkg --release f43 lint
Mockbuild results directory found. Linting mockbuild results.
==================================== rpmlint session starts ===================================
rpmlint: 2.8.0
configuration:
    /usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/rpmlint/configdefaults.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora-spdx-licenses.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/scoring.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/users-groups.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/warn-on-functions.toml
checks: 32, packages: 3

banner.spec: W: no-%check-section
banner.spec: W: no-%check-section
banner.x86_64: E: incorrect-fsf-address /usr/share/licenses/banner/COPYING
 2 packages and 1 specfiles checked; 1 errors, 2 warnings, 8 filtered, 1 badness; has taken 0.2 s
Could not execute lint: Failed to execute command.

For what it’s worth, the banner directory doesn’t exist under licenses. Below is the contents of the banner.spec file:

Name:     banner
Version:  1.3.6
Release:  %autorelease
Summary:  Prints a short string to the console in very large letters
License:  GPL-2.0-only
URL:      https://github.com/pronovic/banner
Source:   https://github.com/pronovic/banner/releases/download/BANNER_V%{version}/banner-%{version}.tar.gz
BuildRequires:   gcc
BuildRequires:   make

%description
This is a classic-style banner program similar to the one found in Solaris or
AIX in the late 1990s. It prints a short string to the console in very large
letters.

%prep
%autosetup

%build
%configure
%make_build

%install
%make_install

%files
%{_bindir}/banner
%{_mandir}/man1/banner.1.*
%license COPYING
%doc AUTHORS ChangeLog README

%changelog
%autochangelog

[SOLVED]

banner.spec: W: no-%check-section
banner.spec: W: no-%check-section
banner.x86_64: E: incorrect-fsf-address /usr/share/licenses/banner/COPYING
 2 packages and 1 specfiles checked; 1 errors, 2 warnings, 8 filtered, 1 badness;

To resolve:

banner.spec: W: no-%check-section

Added a %check line to the banner.spec file

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To resolve:

banner.x86_64: E: incorrect-fsf-address /usr/share/licenses/banner/COPYING

Opened the banner-1.3.6 tarball and updated the license text of the COPYING file.

Re-zipped the tarball:

tar -czvf banner-1.3.6.tar.gz banner-1.3.6/

Re-ran:

fedpkg --release f43 mockbuild

and

fedpkg --release f43 lint

It now completes without warnings or errors:

Mockbuild results directory found. Linting mockbuild results.
==================================== rpmlint session starts ===================================
rpmlint: 2.8.0
configuration:
    /usr/lib/python3.14/site-packages/rpmlint/configdefaults.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora-spdx-licenses.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/scoring.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/users-groups.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/warn-on-functions.toml
checks: 32, packages: 3

 2 packages and 1 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings, 8 filtered, 0 badness; has taken 0.2 s
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