Bug#478930: lintian: Check for rfc2822 debian/copyright (http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat)
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 02:16:28PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Mathieu PARENT" <math.parent@gmail.com> writes:
> > 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.
>
> Making it an I: tag means that Lintian is recommending that everyone use
> the new format. Are we sure we're okay with that? If we are, that's
> fine, but I think it's worth thinking about a bit first. I've not gotten
> the impression that the new format has been adopted very widely outside of
> a few scattered groups, so we're basically adding an I: tag for almost the
> entire archive.
Yeah, I would leave that out, too.
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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