Bug#672284: lintian: False positive: no-debian-copyright when packages supply debian/$pkgname.copyright
* Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, 2012-05-14, 02:45:
(There seems to be a bunch of UTF-8 damage in the quoted message.)
Yes, BTS mangled my message. :(
This is correct. It's a violation of Policy 12.5: "A copy of the file
which will be installed in '/usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright'
should be in 'debian/copyright' in the source package."
I see. Than maybe lintian could detect this violation of the Policy
and emit a separate tag for packages that ship copyright files under
debian/$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.
Possibly, though this debhelper behavior is very old:
debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
[...]
* dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
are supported. (#16935)
[...]
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
But I always thought that we were supposed to documented license and
copyright holders of all files in the _source_ package, so having
copyright files that vary with binary package doesn't make sense to me.
--
Jakub Wilk
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