Hi Josh,
> However, this also applies to any upstream that simply doesn't
> contain any copyright notices.
Mm, do you have any examples, out of interest?
> Suppose you're packaging a piece of software for which `git grep -i
> copyright` returns absolutely nothing. In that case, requiring
> `debian/copyright` to contain something that looks like a copyright
> notice (e.g. "Copyright YYYY Some Person") seems wrong, and having to
> override that lintian warning seems similarly wrong
I would agree it would be wrong in those but I'm thinking that
statistically-speaking this is surely uncommon enough that making
Lintian drop this check (which is what you are asking for, right?)
a net negative.
Regards,
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