Bug#771750: [lintian] rename dep5-copyright tags to copyright-1.0
On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 11:15:16AM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Hi Chris!
Hi Jakob! :)
> * Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle@coredump.us>, 2014-12-01, 21:12:
> >Lintian currently refers to "dep5" copyright issues and tags, but
> >the "DEP-5" references have been deprecated in favor of "copyright
> >1.0":
> >
> > https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
> >
> >so these tags could be renamed as "copyright 1.0" (or "1.x"),
> >which I think would make them more clear.
>
> Renaming Lintian tags is not something that should be done lightly.
> Some people might have overridden the tags; others might have put
> them in their private Lintian profiles.
Shucks! I forgot about this -- thanks for pointing it out.
> For similar reasons, it's a bad idea to put version number of the
> specification in the tag name.
Yes I see that.
> And "copyright 1.0" doesn't seem more clear to me at all. If
> anything, we should do s/dep5-copyright/machine-readable-copyright/.
machine-readable-copyright seems clearer to me too.
-- Chris
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Chris Knadle
Chris.Knadle@coredump.us
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