Bug#478930: lintian: Check for rfc2822 debian/copyright (http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat)
Mathieu Parent <math.parent@gmail.com> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.46
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
>
> The files add checks for the proposal:
> http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat
>
> I hope this implementation will help to clarify things.
>
> To enable, copy:
> - copyright-specification to /usr/share/lintian/checks/
> - copyright-specification.desc to /usr/share/lintian/checks/
> - DebianCopyrightParser.pm to /usr/share/lintian/lib
lib/Lintian/Parse/Copyright.pm or something along those lines would be
better. I'm trying to move lintian into a proper Perl namespace habit so
that eventually we can install the lintian Perl modules into the regular
Perl module search path.
> and check with -I
It might be a bit premature to warn if people aren't using that format.
I've personally not started using it, for example, largely because it
doesn't yet have a standardized way of including all the things that
*aren't* just copyrights and licenses that belong in debian/copyright.
Checking the syntax if people are using it is certainly a good idea.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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