Bug#672284: lintian: False positive: no-debian-copyright when packages supply debian/$pkgname.copyright

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

(There seems to be a bunch of UTF-8 damage in the quoted message.)

Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org> writes:
> On 09/05 07:51, Jakub Wilk wrote:

>> This is correct. It's a violation of Policy §12.5: “A copy of
>> the file which will be installed in
>> ‘/usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright’ should be in
>> ‘debian/copyright’ in the source package.”

> I see. Than maybe lintian could detect this violation of the Policy and
> emit a separate tag for packages that ship copyright files under
> debian/$pkgname.copyright rather than debian/copyright?

I suspect Policy is the one at fault here, or something more complex than
that.  I think that Policy dictate predates the debhelper support for
$pkgname.copyright.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>