Bug#645385: lintian: should check for binary version of coyright file not source

[Nicholas Bamber <nicholas@periapt.co.uk>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.3
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream


The Debian policy states the need for a copyright file but always
refers to the binary version rather than the source version.
So the copyright file might be package specific and may even
be generated (which an upcoming version of pkg-components supports).
However lintian looks for the source version when it seems that
the policy only really permits it to scrutinize the binary version.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils              2.21.53.20110910-1 The GNU assembler, linker
and bina
ii  bzip2                 1.0.5-7            high-quality block-sorting
file co
ii  diffstat              1.54-1             produces graph of changes
introduc
ii  file                  5.08-1             Determines file type using
"magic"
ii  gettext               0.18.1.1-4         GNU Internationalization
utilities
ii  intltool-debian       0.35.0+20060710.1  Help i18n of RFC822
compliant conf
ii  libapt-pkg-perl       0.1.24+b2          Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libclass-accessor-per 0.34-1             Perl module that
automatically gen
ii  libdpkg-perl          1.16.1             Dpkg perl modules
ii  libemail-valid-perl   0.185-1            Perl module for checking
the valid
ii  libipc-run-perl       0.90-1             Perl module for running
processes
ii  libparse-debianchange 1.2.0-1            parse Debian changelogs and
output
ii  libtimedate-perl      1.2000-1           collection of modules to
manipulat
ii  liburi-perl           1.59-1             module to manipulate and
access UR
ii  locales               2.13-21            Embedded GNU C Library:
National L
ii  locales-all [locales] 2.13-21            Embedded GNU C Library:
Precompile
ii  man-db                2.5.7-8            on-line manual pager
ii  patchutils            0.3.2-1            Utilities to work with patches
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.12.4-4           Larry Wall's Practical
Extraction ii  unzip                 6.0-5              De-archiver for
.zip files

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch <none>                (no description available)
ii  dpkg-dev           1.16.1                Debian package development
tools
ii  libhtml-parser-per 3.68-1+b1             collection of modules that
parse H
ii  libtext-template-p 1.45-2                Text::Template perl module
ii  man-db             2.5.7-8               on-line manual pager
ii  xz-utils           5.1.1alpha+20110809-2 XZ-format compression utilities

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