Bug#757551: lintian: check if DEP-5 debian/copyright covers all files in the unpacked sources

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>, 2014-08-10, 09:28:
> > I don't intend to work on improving the patch, but maybe somebody else 
> > will find it useful.
>
> that would be me :)

Whoo! :-)

> Jakub: what I do not understand is what the rationale behind the 
> unused-file-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright tag is. I do not see a case 
> where this tag would be emitted but the 
> wildcard-matches-nothing-in-dep5-copyright would not.

If I recall correctly, it is supposed to catch cases like this:

Files: *
License: GPL-2

Files: debian/*
License: Expat

Files: src/*
License: LGPL-3

If the source package contains nothing but debian/ and src/ directories, 
then the first paragraph is completely overridden by the following ones.

--
Jakub Wilk