Package: lintian Version: 2.5.38 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I was trying to get an ITP submission lintian-clean, when I got stumped by a very stubborn warning, even after reading every sentence in the packaging- documentation on debian/copyright ever so carefully. Then I tried the example from the documentation itself [1], and the warning persists. I report this as a bug in lintian because I believe that lintian should accept positive examples from the documentation without warning. To reproduce, clone the given repo [2], and run: $ lintian -EviIL +pedantic telegram-purple_1.2.2-1.dsc [SNIP] W: telegram-purple source: syntax-error-in-dep5-copyright line 18: Cannot parse line "Copyright 2009, 2010 Angela Watts" [SNIP] Note that I intentionally emptied the *.orig.tar.gz, since the contents are irrelevant to the warning. (The same warning is produced with and without the original file.) [1]: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0 /#copyright-field [2]: https://github.com/BenWiederhake/lintian-copyright -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.25.1-3 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8 ii diffstat 1.60-1 ii file 1:5.25-2 ii gettext 0.19.6-1 ii hardening-includes 2.7 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b3 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.53-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.38-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.3 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.196-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.94-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.413-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-8 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.69-1 ii man-db 2.7.3-1 ii patchutils 0.3.4-1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.20.2-6 ii t1utils 1.38-4 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii dpkg 1.18.3 pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none> ii perl 5.20.2-6 ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.20.2-6 Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch 2.25.1-3 ii dpkg-dev 1.18.3 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-2 ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1 pn libyaml-perl <none>
