Bug#497347: lintian: warn about incomplete copyright sentences
clone 497347 -1
reassign -1 dh-make 0.46
severity -1 normal
thanks
2008/8/31 Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>:
> Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> The Debian packaging is (C) 2008, John Doe <john@mail.org> and
>>> is licensed under the GPL, see above.
>>
>> The above example should either say:
>> > ...is Copyright (C) 2008...
>> The '(C)' part being optional, or
>> > ...is (c) 2008...
>
> Lintian already does catch this if there's no copyright statement at all
> and I think does as well as is reasonably possible without way too many
> false positives.
You said it: "at all"; in this case I propose to add a check for that
specific bit of the copyright files.
I'm now cloning the bug report so the issue is also fixed at the
source: dh-make.
Will submit a patch implementing the check in an hour or so, hope you like it.
>
> --
> Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
>
Cheers,
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