Package: lintian Version: 2.2.13 Severity: normal Greetings, Lintian maintainers.
I just read the following from Lintian: W: copyright-without-copyright-notice N: Debian requires the N: copyright file include the authors and years of copyright After checking Policy § 12.5 (Copyright information), I could not find such a requirement to dig in the details: ‘Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright and distribution license’ In my understanding, if Upstream does not indicate years, then there is no requirement in Debian to investigate this and provide a complement of information. Moreover, the copyright holder is not necessary the author, it is often his employer, so listing the authors when they do not hold the copyright does not seem to be requested as the Lintian warning suggests. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.14.25 Debian package development tools ii file 4.26-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-4 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.22+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libipc-run-perl 0.80-2 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii man-db 2.5.2-4 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-22 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available) ii man-db 2.5.2-4 on-line manual pager -- 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
