Bug#553469: Lintian based autorejects

[Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>]

Package: lintian

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:28:16AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 09:37:53AM +0100, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 07:42:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > > Please note that the intention of the Lintian tag is not to complain
> > > about people using "Author(s)", but to catch people who have used
> > > dh-make and then never completed the relevant section of the
> > > resulting debian/copyright file, which I think we would all agree is
> > > an obvious RC bug.
> > 
> > Yes, so can't we introduce a bogus line in dh-make's default copyright
> > file? Something like a trap for lintian? If this is really about
> > catching packages where the maintainer forgot to even think about
> > debian/copyright, this would work perfectly and probably without false
> > positives.
> 
> dh_make already inserts "put author's name and email here", I had
> guessed that lintian would check for that and error out otherwise, but
> if this is not yet the case, maybe it can be added.

17:21 < Manoj> huh. 97 possibilities, only 3 RC bugs filed,
copyright-lists-upstream-authors-with-dh_make-boilerplate

This probably means lintian really only checks for "Author(s)"; I guess
it would be better to check for the above dh_make text, rather (at least
when it comes to the tag title).  I don't know whether the dh_make text
has changed over time, though.


Michael