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

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi Jelmer,

On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 11:03 AM Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Thanks, it's all driven by the lintian table in UDD. :-)

Are you able to cross-reference debug packages (#874017), or are you
not looking at them?

> The common issue
> appears to be people copy-n-pasting license texts that contain tabs.

I committed a change that issues a tag for that scenario and closes the bug:

    https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/3c27367db642522bee866ed9ba9f8f9cecec84e8

The fix does not examine any other fields that could reasonably be
affected by such pasting, such as 'Copyright'. Please re-open the bug
if any other fields should be addressed as well.

> Would it be possible to reuse the check for tabs in the long Description
> field for binary packages?

That check is in fields/description. An adaptation did not seem
practicable to me, but please feel free to take a look.

Kind regards,
Felix Lechner