Bug#286842: marked as done (lintian: Please enforce the ./debian/copyright "Copyright of" line)
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Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.3
Severity: wishlist
Presently, lots of people seem to misuse the "Copyright:" line given
in ./debian/copyright by dh_make. There are lots of lines matching
"^Copyright:$".
I believe this is not as intended, and, although Mostly Harmless,
introduces inconsistency. I propose that lintian errors on:
m/^Copyright(:?)$/m
The idea is to encourage these:
Copyright (C) 2004 by Justin Pryzby
Another solution would be to have a "boilerplate" "Copyright:
copyright-holder's-name-here" line, which is what I'm recommending in
a separate bug on dh-make. Then, lintian can error on that.
Right now on my laptop, with 1000+ installed packages, there are 4
that match "^Copyright$", all of which are not necessarily wrong, but
that Copyright line also doesn't add information. Its just:
Copyright
=========
Mind you, that's the name of the file ..
There are another 500 packages that match "^Copyright:$". Some may be
legitimate, but I suspect that most are not. Indeed, the first 3 of 4
that I just checked needlessly matched "^Copyright:$".
Justin
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Source: lintian
Source-Version: 1.23.44
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lintian, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
lintian_1.23.44.dsc
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.23.44.dsc
lintian_1.23.44.tar.gz
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.23.44.tar.gz
lintian_1.23.44_all.deb
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_1.23.44_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
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Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (supplier of updated lintian package)
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Format: 1.7
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:07:45 -0800
Source: lintian
Binary: lintian
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.23.44
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Description:
lintian - Debian package checker
Closes: 286842 345487 409131 464461 464511 464626
Changes:
lintian (1.23.44) unstable; urgency=low
.
The "I can't release a quick fix without *some* other work" release.
.
* checks/binaries:
+ [RA] Make an architecture specification after perlapi optional.
Thanks, gregor herrmann. (Closes: #464626)
* checks/copyright-file{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Check the copyright file to ensure it contains at least one
copyright statement with a date or the term "public domain". It's
hard to be thorough without false positives, but this should catch
the most obvious omissions. Thanks, Justin Pryzby and Jari Aalto.
(Closes: #286842, #409131)
* checks/fields:
+ [RA] Warn of build-dependencies on a Debian revision of -1. They
make backporting unnecessarily difficult. Thanks, Erich Schubert.
(Closes: #345487)
* checks/po-debconf:
+ [RA] Accept three-character language codes for po files. Thanks,
Patrick Winnertz and Eddy Petrișor. (Closes: #464511)
.
* lib/Spelling.pm:
+ [RA] Don't strip hyphens before checking spelling. Move all D-Bus
corrections to the picky list since the correction is too confusing
even if accurate without capitalization. Thanks, Nelson A. de
Oliveira. (Closes: #464461)
Files:
707820a6a40d04680e35ab3440d4e695 904 devel optional lintian_1.23.44.dsc
5813c2630f3b9ad8f173563ce7af1bc8 386832 devel optional lintian_1.23.44.tar.gz
e1c07c66b27143f68c7349ee9611ba90 320320 devel optional lintian_1.23.44_all.deb
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