Hi Felix, On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 09:02:17PM -0800, Felix Lechner wrote: > First of all, thank you for D-Janitor. We look forward to learning > more about it and would like to support your efforts. Thanks, it's all driven by the lintian table in UDD. :-) > 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/)? From my reading of the specification, tabs are (in theory) still allowed in the Files or Upstream-Contact fields, although I don't think I've actually seen any package use tabs there. The common issue appears to be people copy-n-pasting license texts that contain tabs. Would it be possible to reuse the check for tabs in the long Description field for binary packages? Jelmer
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