On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 07:42:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ryan Niebur <ryan@debian.org> writes: > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:03:06PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 03:59:52PM -0700, Ryan Niebur wrote: > > >>> I completely disagree with this lintian warning and prefer to use > >>> "Author(s)". > > >> I do agree that rejecting on this is probably excessive but I'm curious > >> as to why you think it's incorrect? > > > I prefer "Author(s)". Less text to update when a new author is > > added. It does no harm and affects nothing in the end result. I'm > > curious as to why you think "Author(s)" is a bad thing? > > Please note that the intention of the Lintian tag is not to complain about > people using "Author(s)", but to catch people who have used dh-make and > then never completed the relevant section of the resulting > debian/copyright file, which I think we would all agree is an obvious RC > bug. Yes, so can't we introduce a bogus line in dh-make's default copyright file? Something like a trap for lintian? If this is really about catching packages where the maintainer forgot to even think about debian/copyright, this would work perfectly and probably without false positives. Hauke
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