Re: Lintian based autorejects
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 09:37:53AM +0100, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 07:42:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > 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.
dh_make already inserts "put author's name and email here", I had
guessed that lintian would check for that and error out otherwise, but
if this is not yet the case, maybe it can be added.
Michael
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