Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10.5 Severity: wishlist The new Copyright Format 1.0 lists Debian copyrights in stanza:
Files: debian/* Copyright: 2006-2011 Jari Aalto <jari.aa...@cante.net> 1998-2000, 2002-2004 Thimo Neubauer <th...@debian.org> License: LGPL-2+ It's easy to miss listing people that have worked with the package and own the Copyright too: # Roughly something like this $ cd ace-of-penguins/debian $ awk '/ -- .*>/ {printf("%d %s %s %s\n", $(NF - 2), $2, $3,$4)}' changelog | sort -ru 2013 Jari Aalto <jari.aa...@cante.net> 2012 Jari Aalto <jari.aa...@cante.net> 2011 Jari Aalto <jari.aa...@cante.net> 2010 Jari Aalto <jari.aa...@cante.net> 2010 Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> 2009 Jari Aalto <jari.aa...@cante.net> 2006 Jari Aalto <jari.aa...@cante.net> 2005 dann frazier <da...@debian.org> 2005 Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> 2004 Thimo Neubauer <th...@debian.org> 2003 Thimo Neubauer <th...@debian.org> 2002 Thimo Neubauer <th...@debian.org> 2001 Adrian Bunk <b...@fs.tum.de> 2000 Thimo Neubauer <th...@debian.org> 1999 Thimo Neubauer <th...@debian.org> 1998 Thimo Neubauer <th...@debian.org> Please consider adding a check that would parse the people from "--" lines of debian/changelog and see that they are listed in debian/copyright. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.22-8 ii bzip2 1.0.6-4 ii diffstat 1.55-3 ii file 5.11-2 ii gettext 0.18.1.1-9 ii hardening-includes 2.2 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.26+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.30-6 ii libc-bin 2.13-38 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.31-1+b2 ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.10 ii libemail-valid-perl 0.190-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 ii liburi-perl 1.60-1 ii locales 2.13-38 ii man-db 2.6.2-1 ii patchutils 0.3.2-1.1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.14.2-21 lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.16.10 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.69-2 pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none> ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-2 ii man-db 2.6.2-1 ii xz-utils [lzma] 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org