RE: lintian-warning copyright-lists-upstream-authors-like-dh_mak
On 01-Oct-2001 Erich Schubert wrote:
>> W: prips: copyright-lists-upstream-authors-like-dh_make
>
> I've run into that warning with my packages, too.
> Is this really intended?
> Is it a bad-thing (tm) to fill out the dh_make template?
> i could not find this rule anymore in the lintian on the mips box i
> just checked, btw. So maybe this is already removed.
>
I removed it in 1.20.16. I found it overly pedantic and annoying. however I
will continue to add checks for template fields not be properly filled in. I
added a check recently for dh_make_perl's copyright header.
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