Bug#875933: lintian: Please ignore debian/copyright_hints file from file-contains-fixme-placeholder tag checking

[Vasudev Kamath <vasudev@copyninja.info>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.52
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

debian/copyright_hints file is a hint file for maintainer of package
providing possible license information as detected by licensecheck
tool. So they tend to have FIXME which should be used as hint to update
actual debian/copyright file.

Additionally file also helps in tracking of new additions to source during
version update. 

As such giving lintian error for this particular file does not make sense.
And this tag is creating lintian error in most of CDBS packages employing
copyright check functionality.

So please ignore debian/copyright_hints file while checking for FIXME.

Cheers,



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IN:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                          2.29-10
ii  bzip2                             1.0.6-8.1
ii  diffstat                          1.61-1+b1
ii  dpkg                              1.18.24
ii  file                              1:5.32-1
ii  gettext                           0.19.8.1-4
ii  intltool-debian                   0.35.0+20060710.4
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                   0.1.33
ii  libarchive-zip-perl               1.59-1
ii  libclass-accessor-perl            0.34-1
ii  libclone-perl                     0.38-2+b2
ii  libdpkg-perl                      1.18.24
ii  libemail-valid-perl               1.202-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl              0.07-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                   0.96-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl            0.416-1+b3
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl     1.2.0-12
ii  libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl]  5.26.0-8
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl          0.13-1
ii  libtimedate-perl                  2.3000-2
ii  liburi-perl                       1.72-1
ii  libxml-simple-perl                2.24-1
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl              0.63-2+b2
ii  man-db                            2.7.6.1-2
ii  patchutils                        0.3.4-2
ii  perl                              5.26.0-8
ii  t1utils                           1.40-2
ii  xz-utils                          5.2.2-1.3

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii  libperlio-gzip-perl  0.19-1+b4

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  dpkg-dev               1.18.24
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.72-3+b2
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.46-1

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