Bug#683946: W: comma-separated-files-in-dep5-copyright reports wrong line number

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2012-08-05 18:54, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.10.1
> Severity: minor
> 
> Hi,
> 

Hi,

> On running lintian, I get
> 
> W: ccl source: comma-separated-files-in-dep5-copyright paragraph at line 100
> 
> [...] The only
> problem is that the line number is wrong. The line in question is
> 
> Files: ffigen4/gcc-core-4.0.0.tar.bz2, ffigen4/gcc-objc-4.0.0.tar.bz2
> 
> which is line 17 of the file.
> 

Indeed, thanks for catching that.  I have fixed this.

> Additionally, another small comment. Previously, when I had I wrapped the Source: line
> around (this refers to the 4th line) so that there was no space after
> the second line, like this
> 
> Source: The main download url is
> http://ccl.clozure.com/download.html. The source code was downloaded
> from svn.clozure.com. See README.source for further information.
> 
> it gave the error
> 
> W: ccl source: syntax-error-in-dep5-copyright line 5: Cannot parse line
> 
> However at that time, it did not report the
> comma-separated-files-in-dep5-copyright error.
> 
>                                                         Regards, Faheem
> 
> [...]

This is because Lintian does not process the DEP-5 file if it has syntax
errors.  I have added a note about this in the description of the
syntax-error-in-dep5-copyright tag.

~Niels