Bug#631674: helper-templates-in-copyright: false positive ‘Author (s)’.

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Hello everybody, see the patch below.

>From a8a088735e22cb5a2eff375c339aed0268fdb934 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 10:51:29 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Removed one regular expression that matches the Open Font License and probably others.

m,Author\(s\),o gives false positive helper-templates-in-copyright tags.
---
 checks/copyright-file |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/checks/copyright-file b/checks/copyright-file
index 1fb0798..335ca7a 100644
--- a/checks/copyright-file
+++ b/checks/copyright-file
@@ -271,7 +271,6 @@ if (m,\<put author[\'\(]s\)? name and email here\>,o) {
     tag 'helper-templates-in-copyright';
 }
 if (m,\<Copyright \(C\) YYYY Name OfAuthor\>,o or
-    m,Author\(s\),o or
     m,\<years\>,o or
     m,\<special license\>,o or
     m,\<likewise for another author\>,o) {
-- 
1.7.2.5