Package: lintian Version: 1.24.2 Severity: normal Tags: patch The machine-readable copyright format includes a Format-Specification header line that, for the present, usually points at the Wiki page for the proposal. However, most people (including me) reference a specific version of the Wiki proposal page by using a URL like: http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat?recall=184 This, combined with the "Format-Specification: " in front, is virtually guaranteed to make lintian warn about a "copyright line too long" :) Attached is a patch that matches the lines read from the copyright file against the "Format-Specification: proposal-url" pattern and excludes any lines that start like this. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=bg_BG.CP1251, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.CP1251 (charmap=CP1251) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.14.20 Debian package development tools ii file 4.24-4 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-3 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.47-1 Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3 ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii man-db 2.5.2-1 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-11 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
Index: checks/copyright-file
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--- checks/copyright-file (revision 2491)
+++ checks/copyright-file (revision 2492)
@@ -155,7 +155,8 @@
# matter for the length check.
my @lines = split ("\n", decode ('utf-8', $_));
for my $i (0 .. $#lines) {
- if (length ($lines[$i]) > 80) {
+ if (length ($lines[$i]) > 80 &&
+ $lines[$i] !~ m{^Format-Specification:\s*http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat}) {
tag "debian-copyright-line-too-long", "line " . ($i+1);
}
}
Index: testset/copyright/debian/copyright.no-errors
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--- testset/copyright/debian/copyright.no-errors (revision 2491)
+++ testset/copyright/debian/copyright.no-errors (revision 2492)
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
It was downloaded from <http://www.example.org/>
+Format-Specification: http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat?recall=184
+
Upstream Authors:
Tobias Toedter <t.toedter@gmx.net>
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