Bug#633779: lintian: validate DEP-5 debian/copyright files

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.1
Severity: wishlist

I observe that quite often debian/copyright files that declare they are 
DEP-5-compliant, does not really follow the specification. It would be 
nice if lintian could warn if this is the case.

Even throwing a generic control file parser at the problem would be 
quite effective. E.g., out of 111 DEP-5-ish debian/copyright files in 
Debian Python Modules Team, 19 is so broken cannot be even parsed by 
grep-dctrl.

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Jakub Wilk