Bug#803519: lintian: Search for the string "legal" in every file, as it is gererally misused
Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is> writes:
> It is not enough to check just the Debian part of a package. The
> part that comes from upstream should be scrutinized.
If you want to try to teach various upstreams to use the word "illegal"
the way that you want them to do so, feel free. You already have all the
tools that you need to take this on personally. But this is not the
purpose of the Lintian tool.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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