* Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>, 2011-07-18, 00:34:
I attached a (preliminary?) patch adding support for very basic DEP-5 validation. Beware, tag descriptions could use some love. ;)Hi Thanks for looking into this. Personally I am considering if this should be moved into its own check.While it is related to the copyright-file check I think a DEP-5 check could easily deserve its own check file. Particularly it may keep the logic simple(r) and the DEP-5 check will most likely be extended in the future (e.g. to check the other paragraphs).
As far as I can see, lintian currently checks only copyright files in binary packages, not in source packages. However, to properly validate a DEP-5 copyright file, you need access the source package. So perhaps it'd make sense to have a source-copyright-file check and move DEP-5 stuff there?
-- Jakub Wilk