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



* Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>, 2016-08-26, 10:42:
check years in debian/copyright are not in the future
What's the general lintian policy on its output changing over time?

Lintian User's Manual §1.3 says: “Checks should not rely on […] the system time.”

(Admittedly, Lintian doesn't perfectly adhere to this rule at the moment; see #734950.)

Clearly, checking for dates >= 2100 might be considered be pretty safe.

Checking for dates newer than top changelog entry would be probably better.

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Jakub Wilk


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