Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.9
Severity: wishlist
The lintian test
'copyright-lists-upstream-authors-with-dh_make-boilerplate' is extremely
nitpicky. It addresses the following "problem":
> There is "Upstream Author(s)" in your copyright file. This was most
> likely a remnant from the dh_make template.
>
> There's either one upstream author, in which case you should remove
> the "(s)", or there are several upstream authors, in which case you
> should remove the "(" and ")".
Come on, please. I hope you all agree that this test whines about
something that's not important, the text is grammatically correct but
only has two parentheses which might have been left out to save 2 bytes.
I find it hard to believe that this test would enhance package quality
judging by any significant standard.
Useless tests, besides wasting people's time, have the danger of
annoying people too much: when presented with too many complaints about
irrelevant problems, you risk people not paying attention to Lintian's
output anymore.
Thanks,
Thijs
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