Bug#1025644: lintian: should not have the update-debian-copyright tag at all
Package: lintian
Version: 2.115.3
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: tg@mirbsd.de
The update-debian-copyright tag gives bad advice:
N: The most recent copyright year mentioned for files in ./debian lags behind
N: the year in the timestamp for the most recent changelog entry.
This is a fully normal thing to have. You only update the copyright year
for something when *you* do something relevant for copyright law (that
is passing the threshold of originality) in that year.
Having this tag is misleading because it’ll lead to people bumping the
year because they don’t know better and just to silence lintian.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-19-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.39-8
ii bzip2 1.0.8-5+b1
ii diffstat 1.64-1
ii dpkg 1.21.9+b1
ii dpkg-dev 1.21.9
ii file 1:5.41-4
ii gettext 0.21-10
ii gpg 2.2.40-1
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.6
ii iso-codes 4.12.0-1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.40+b2
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1
ii libberkeleydb-perl 0.64-2+b1
ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1
ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-4+b1
ii libclone-perl 0.46-1
ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.28-2
ii libconst-fast-perl 0.014-2
ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.32-1+b1
ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.58-1
ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1.1
ii libdata-validate-uri-perl 0.07-2
ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-2+b1
pn libdigest-sha-perl <none>
ii libdpkg-perl 1.21.9
ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.05-1+b1
ii libencode-perl 3.19-1+b1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.09-2
ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-3
ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-2
ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-3
ii libhtml-tokeparser-simple-perl 3.16-4
ii libio-interactive-perl 1.023-2
ii libipc-run3-perl 0.048-2
ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004004-1
ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-2
ii liblist-someutils-perl 0.58-3
ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.12-2
ii libmldbm-perl 2.05-4
ii libmoo-perl 2.005004-3
ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-2
ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-2
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.124-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.20-1+b1
ii libperlio-utf8-strict-perl 0.010-1
ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.634-1+b2
ii libregexp-wildcards-perl 1.05-3
ii libsereal-decoder-perl 5.001+ds-1+b1
ii libsereal-encoder-perl 5.001+ds-2
ii libsort-versions-perl 1.62-3
ii libsyntax-keyword-try-perl 0.27-1+b1
ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.38-2+b1
ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-5+b1
ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.13-2
ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.9-1+b2
ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-1
ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-2+b1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-2
ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-1+b4
ii liburi-perl 5.17-1
ii libwww-mechanize-perl 2.15-1
ii libwww-perl 6.67-1
ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-1+b1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.84+ds-1+b1
ii lzip [lzip-decompressor] 1.23-4
ii lzop 1.04-2
ii man-db 2.11.1-1
ii patchutils 0.4.2-1
ii perl [libencode-perl] 5.36.0-4
ii t1utils 1.41-4
ii unzip 6.0-27
ii xz-utils 5.2.8-0.0
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
pn libtext-template-perl <none>
-- no debconf information
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