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Bug#807461: lintian: check years in debian/copyright are not in the future



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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