Bug#709139: lintian: add debian/copyright check for Debian copyright owwners

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

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On 2013-05-21 07:21, Jari Aalto wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.10.5
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> The new Copyright Format 1.0 lists Debian copyrights in stanza:
> 
>     Files: debian/*
>     Copyright:
>       2006-2011 Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
>       1998-2000, 2002-2004 Thimo Neubauer <thimo@debian.org>
>     License: LGPL-2+
> 
> It's easy to miss listing people that have worked with the package and
> own the Copyright too:
> 
>   # Roughly something like this
> 
>   $ cd ace-of-penguins/debian
> 
>   $ awk '/ -- .*>/ {printf("%d %s %s %s\n", $(NF - 2), $2, $3,$4)}' changelog |
>     sort -ru
> 
> [...]
> 
> Please consider adding a check that would parse the people from "--"
> lines of debian/changelog and see that they are listed in
> debian/copyright.
> 
> [...]

Hi,

While this is a interesting idea, I am not quite convinced by it.  I
suspect there are plenty^W several of cases where a name could be listed
in d/changelog without needing to be in d/copyright.

That said, you can now write this check for personal usage.

~Niels