On Wednesday 13 February 2008 20:00:44 you wrote: > Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> writes: > > 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 > > It doesn't like the interposed (and meaningless) (c) in the case where the > copyright is split across multiple lines. I'll try to make it better > about recognizing this, but the second example in particular gets more and > more annoying to detect as more punctuation and newlines are added. It's > much easier if the debian/copyright file just has the official legal > copyright notices on lines by themselves. The more work that goes into > moving things around, adding punctuation and newlines, and whatnot, the > harder it is to detect. > > In other words, better would be: > > Copyright 2003 by Kevin Conder > Copyright 2004-2005 by Michael Gogins > > However, in general you want to copy the upstream notices verbatim, and I > know that these two desires are in tension and upstreams use notices like > you have above. The cases above should be possible to adapt for. What bothers me is that although I have a line "blah is copyright by joe", lintian is still complaining. After all, the different modules have different copyrights. I see that the regex is not case insensitive and thus checks for Copyright but not copyright, which would have avoided the warnings in my case. Had I written "CsoundAC (formerly CsoundVST) is Copyright (c) 2001-2008 by Michael Gogins.", the warning would have not appeared. For the other cases, can't perl be made to read more than one line per pattern? -- Felipe Sateler
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