Bug#915384: lintian: check that debian/copyright has an entry for each component

[Xavier Guimard <yadd@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.114
Severity: wishlist

Hi all,

uscan allows DD to embed components in their packages. Initially this
feature was written for split upstream. Some packages like vlc,
node-mongodb, node-yarn,... use it to include some external components.
It could be safe in this case to add a lintian warning if there is no
entry in debian/copyright like:

  Files: <component-name>...

Tags could then be:

  Severity: normal, Certainty: wild-guess

This point has been discussed in [#915181].

Cheers,
Xavier

#915181: https://bugs.debian.org/915181