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Bug#773562: lintian: detect non-free and contrib packages without a Disclaimer in debian/copyright



Package: lintian
Severity: wishlist

According to Debian Policy section 12.5:

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile

Packages in the contrib or non-free archive areas should state in the
copyright file that the package is not part of the Debian distribution
and briefly explain why.

For packages in contrib/non-free that have a copyright-format 1.0
debian/copyright file, please check that there is a Disclaimer or
Comment header that contains the phrase "not part of Debian". This check
should probably be marked as experimental and info level severity.

Here is a package that recently gained one such header:

http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/non-free/e/edk2/unstable_copyright

Here is a package that does not have a header.

http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/contrib/t/torbrowser-launcher/unstable_copyright

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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