Bug#478930: lintian: Check for rfc2822 debian/copyright (http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat)
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.
Ok
> > 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.
It it like it behave: it checks for the format-specification field. If it
does not exists then it only shows an I: debian-copyright-no-specification.
If it exists, the checks go deeper. Most of the following checks gives a
warning.
> --
> Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
>
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