[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.10-107-g514f0f3
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 514f0f3728a12086544c76a1770b7360a024422e
Author: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
Date: Tue Aug 7 12:04:25 2012 +0200
c/source-copyright: Mention that syntax errors hides tags
Mention that a syntax error in the DEP-5 copyright file may hide other
issues as Lintian will skip some checks on the file.
Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
diff --git a/checks/source-copyright.desc b/checks/source-copyright.desc
index d6c98f8..92535af 100644
--- a/checks/source-copyright.desc
+++ b/checks/source-copyright.desc
@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ Certainty: possible
Ref: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Info: The machine-readable copyright file didn't pass Debian control file
syntax check.
+ .
+ This issue may hide other issues as Lintian skips some checks on the
+ file in this case.
Tag: obsolete-field-in-dep5-copyright
Severity: normal
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 581c29d..1d4f586 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ lintian (2.5.11) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+ [NT] Report the correct line number for the use of commas in
the "Files" field in DEP-5 copyright files. Thanks to Faheem
Mitha for the report. (Closes: #683946)
+ + [NT] Mention that syntax-error-in-dep5-copyright may hide
+ other issues as Lintian skips some DEP-5 checks in this case.
+ Thanks to Faheem Mitha for the report.
* checks/version-substvars{,.desc}:
+ [JW,NT] Extend version-substvar-for-external-package to
all relations. Previously it was only triggered for
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