Bug#497347: lintian: warn about incomplete copyright sentences
Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Raphael Geissert" <atomo64-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> writes:
>
>> You said it: "at all"; in this case I propose to add a check for that
>> specific bit of the copyright files.
>
> The problem here is that we encourage people to cut and paste *verbatim*
> the upstream copyright notice. It's not at all unlikely that such a
I don't think that is what dh-make's templates are 'teaching' the newcomers:
/usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/licenses/gpl:
> Upstream Author(s):
>
> <put author's name and email here>
> <likewise for another author>
>
> Copyright:
>
> <Copyright (C) YYYY Name OfAuthor>
> <likewise for another author>
One could think that the format in the template is the one that is expected
to be used. Feel free to file another bug against dh-make :)
>
>> 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.
>
> If it's left over template material from dh-make, then I can certainly see
> warning about that using the template warnings that we have elsewhere, as
> long as we're specific enough not to give false positives for the above
> case.
>
The check is really specific to dh-make's templates; you can take a look at
the patch I attached.
Cheers,
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