Re: lintian-warning copyright-lists-upstream-authors-like-dh_make
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 07:31:40AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> >> > W: prips: copyright-lists-upstream-authors-like-dh_make > N:
> >> > N: There is "Upstream Author(s)" in your copyright file. This
> >> is not a > N: fixed field name, it's just a default dh_make
> >> value. You should adjust > N: it. > N:
> >>
> >> ... this "long description" is spectacularly uninformative!
>
> Josip> Er, what else is there to say but that what I said above?
> Josip> It says that you should adjust the string "Upstream
> Josip> Author(s)" in your copyright file, isn't it obvious? And
> Josip> isn't it obvious that it is left to you to change it the
> Josip> way you like it[1], since there is no specific format
> Josip> mentioned?
>
> No, it was not at all obvious to me either. I thought about it for a
> minute and concluded you probably meant that I should replace with
> author if there was one author and replace with authors if there were
> multiple. Was I right in my interpretation?
I thought the same. We're both wrong. Apparently, it means that
you have the literal "Upstream Author(s)" in your copyright
file, which is in the example created by dh_make, and that
you should edit it to indicate whether you really have
one or more authors.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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