On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 10:42:23AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> > check years in debian/copyright are not in the future
>
> What's the general lintian policy on its output changing over time? For
> example, if this was based on the current year, then running Lintian today
> would provide different results than it would on, for example, January 1st
> 2017.
>
> Clearly, checking for dates >= 2100 might be considered be pretty safe. :)
Why not just comparing it with the latest changelog entry instead?
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