Bug#645384: lintian: should check for binary version of coyright file not source
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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