Package: lintian On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:28:16AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 09:37:53AM +0100, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 07:42:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Please note that the intention of the Lintian tag is not to complain > > > about people using "Author(s)", but to catch people who have used > > > dh-make and then never completed the relevant section of the > > > resulting debian/copyright file, which I think we would all agree is > > > an obvious RC bug. > > > > Yes, so can't we introduce a bogus line in dh-make's default copyright > > file? Something like a trap for lintian? If this is really about > > catching packages where the maintainer forgot to even think about > > debian/copyright, this would work perfectly and probably without false > > positives. > > dh_make already inserts "put author's name and email here", I had > guessed that lintian would check for that and error out otherwise, but > if this is not yet the case, maybe it can be added.
17:21 < Manoj> huh. 97 possibilities, only 3 RC bugs filed, copyright-lists-upstream-authors-with-dh_make-boilerplate This probably means lintian really only checks for "Author(s)"; I guess it would be better to check for the above dh_make text, rather (at least when it comes to the tag title). I don't know whether the dh_make text has changed over time, though. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
