Package: lintian Version: 2.39.0 Severity: wishlist The debian/copyright machine readable standard mentions that the same formatting rules for its Formatted Text fields as for the long "Description" field in packages. https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields#description explicitly says not to use tab characters. It would be great if lintian could check for tab characters in the various text paragraphs in debian/copyright. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.33.1-4 ii bzip2 1.0.8-2 ii diffstat 1.63-1 ii dpkg 1.19.7 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7 ii file 1:5.37-6 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-10 ii gpg 2.2.17-3 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.36+b2 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.67-1 ii libberkeleydb-perl 0.62-1+b1 ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1 ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.44-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1 ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-3+b3 ii libclone-perl 0.43-2 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.7 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1 ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1 ii libio-async-loop-epoll-perl 0.20-1 ii libio-async-perl 0.75-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-2 ii liblist-compare-perl 0.53-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b5 ii libmldbm-perl 2.05-2 ii libmoo-perl 2.003006-1 ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-1 ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1 ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.108-1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1 ii libtype-tiny-perl 1.004004-1 ii liburi-perl 1.76-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.80+repack-2+b1 ii man-db 2.9.0-1 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2+b1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.30.0-9 ii t1utils 1.41-3 ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1+b1 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b6 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b4 pn libtext-template-perl <none> -- no debconf information
