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



On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 01:36:18PM -0800, Felix Lechner wrote:
> 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?
I'm currently 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.
Thanks, much appreciated! That seems like it should cover all of the
cases I've seen so far.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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