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Bug#877766: lintian: more false positives in copyright-year-in-future



I see what you mean.
Point taken :)

On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 8:43 PM Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> wrote:
Hi Mattia,

> Dunno if this is the case, but would be possible to at least keep it for
> some cases
[…]

Whilst this is certainly possible I just can't shake the feeling that
this tag isn't actually finding "real" bugs in packages worth of the
investment.

Sure, a typo of 2117 instead of 2017 is objectively "wrong" but whilst
I am not a lawyer (I just play one on TV, etc. etc.) no court anywhere
in the world is going to rule against someone on the basis of such an
obvious typo.

Thus, I think the Lintian developers' precious hours are better spent
elsewhere and not playing whack-a-mole with this tag, and that's not
taking into consideration the time or annoyance this tag can cause or
has already caused regular developers.


Best wishes,

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