Bug#920575: copyright-without-copyright-notice assumes upstream has copyright notices
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:05:42AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Thanks for the report. I'm afraid I'm finding it hard to parse in
> the lofty abstract; can you perhaps share which package you are
> refering to?
In my case, I've encountered this with various personal (local)
packages. However, this also applies to any upstream that simply doesn't
contain any copyright notices.
Suppose you're packaging a piece of software for which `git grep -i
copyright` returns absolutely nothing. In that case, requiring
`debian/copyright` to contain something that looks like a copyright
notice (e.g. "Copyright YYYY Some Person") seems wrong, and having to
override that lintian warning seems similarly wrong.
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