Bug#651392: lintian: unversioned-copyright-format-uri references 404 http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>, 2011-12-08, 11:13:
> This is the current message for unversioned-copyright-format-uri:
>
> N:
> N:    Format URI of the machine-readable copyright file is not versioned.
> N:
> N:    Please use
> N:    http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?revision=<revisi
> N:    on> as the format URI instead.
> N:
> N:    Refer to http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ for details.
> N:
> N:    Severity: pedantic, Certainty: possible
> N:
> N:    Check: source-copyright, Type: source
> N:
>
> However dep5.mdwn no longer exists. It apparently got replaced with a
> directory. So the information given here is wrong.

Yes, this is unfortunate.

> I therefore suggest removing the faulty sentence. (No information is
> better than wrong information.)

I tend to agree that until there's a sane scheme for format versioning, 
lintian should not suggest any URI.

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Jakub Wilk