Bug#462635: lintian: Please warn if maintainer is a list and uploaders is empty
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.42
Severity: normal
Hi!
It would be nice to get a warning of some kind if
1) maintainer is a list
and
2) uploaders is empty
It is quite nice to be able to see which persons is behind a package. A
empty uploaders field and a list as maintainer effectively hides this.
To check if maintainer is a list, maybe matching on @lists. in
maintainer field could do it. Or a bit stricter
@lists\.(alioth\.)?debian\.org
See for example: #401776
/Sune
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-vserver-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.16.2 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.23-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.0-4 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
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