Bug#711069: lintian: detect self-containing headers in debian/control, DEBIAN/control etc
Package: lintian
Severity: wishlist
We have some packages in the archive that have a Maintainer: field that
starts with 'Maintainer: '. I think it would be good if lintian could
detect this and similar situations where the field value starts with the
field name and a colon. Here are some examples from the Debian archive:
pabs@chianamo ~ $ egrep -h '^([^:]*: )\1' /var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages | sort -u
Description: Description: GObject introspection data for the GStreamer library
Description: Description: GObject introspection data for the GStreamer Plugins Base library
Maintainer: Maintainer: Debian Java maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Maintainer: Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
Maintainer: Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Maintainer: Maintainer: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
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bye,
pabs
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