Bug#286842: lintian: Avoid false positives
Package: lintian
Followup-For: Bug #286842
Is this working correctly? Take this from the csound package I'm
preparing (not in the archive yet):
Copyright notices:
Csound is copyright (c)
1986-1992 by the Massachussetts Institute of Technology
1991-2008 by Barry Vercoe, John ffitch and others.
CsoundAC (formerly CsoundVST) is copyright (c) 2001-2008 by Michael Gogins.
The csound Manual is copyright (c):
2003 by Kevin Conder
2004-2005 by Michael Gogins
This is causing lintian to warn about copyright-without-copyright-notice
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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 1.14.16.6 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.23-2 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 2.5.1-2 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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