Bug#946026: lintian: check for tabs in formatted fields in debian/copyright

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Cc: Jelmer Vernooĳ <jelmer@jelmer.uk>
Subject: Bug#946026: lintian: check for tabs in formatted fields in debian/copyright
From: Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 21:02:17 -0800
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Reply-to: Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>, 946026@bugs.debian.org
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Hi Jelmer,

First of all, thank you for D-Janitor. We look forward to learning
more about it and would like to support your efforts.

On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 8:30 PM Jelmer Vernooĳ <jelmer@jelmer.uk> wrote:
>
> It would be great if lintian could check for tab characters in the
> various text paragraphs in debian/copyright.

I have spent some time with that code. It is long and complex. Would
it be acceptable to simply check if the file contains any tabs at all
(=~ /\t/)?

Kind regards,
Felix

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