Bug#365213: lintian: catch non-free rfc files
Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> Hi! It was suggested in
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.legal/25993/focus=26041
> to produce a lintian rule to catch non-free RFCs in packages.
> I don't know whether this is a good idea (maybe lintian should be usable
> on packages in non-free too?), but here goes.
> My method was to look for files named ^.*/rfc[0-9]+.(html|txt)(.gz)?$.
> What do you think?
It sounds like there aren't many public domain RFCs at all, so this seems
reasonable. However, it should only apply to packages that are not in
non-free (which can be checked by reading the file fields/section and
ensuring that it's not non-free and doesn't start with "non-free/").
Is there a range of RFC numbers that are public domain that we should
exclude from this check, or is it something that always has to be looked
at on a case-by-case basis?
Also, non-free content isn't allowed even in source packages, so a similar
check should probably also be done in checks/cruft.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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