Package: lintian
Version: 2.4.3
Severity: wishlist
I saw a package (on the NEW queue) with a debian/copyright (generated by
dh_make) like this:
=====
This work was packaged for Debian by:
My Full Name <n...@place.com> on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:30:34 -0300
It was downloaded from:
<url://somewhere.com>
Upstream Author(s):
My Full Name
Copyright:
<Copyright (C) 2010 Upstream Full Name>
<likewise for another author>
License:
(...)
=====
And lintian doesn't catch some minor things on it.
For example, "url://somewhere.com" is not a valid url (needs a check for
"url://" here).
Then there is "Upstream Author(s):". It should be "Upstream Author:" or
"Upstream Authors:" only, without parentheses. A check for the parentheses
here would be good.
Then on the copyright part. I am unsure if it's OK to have the copyright
statement surrounded by inequality signs ("<" and ">"), but the second
copyright line "<likewise for another author>" is clearly wrong. There should
be a test for this template line too.
Thank you!
Best regards,
Nelson
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.35.naoliv1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.20.1-15 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.53-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.5 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.04-5 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen
ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.48-1 Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3
ii libipc-run-perl 0.89-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2.1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat
ii liburi-perl 1.55-1 module to manipulate and access UR
ii locales 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii man-db 2.5.7-4 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-14 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-1 Text::Template perl module
ii man-db 2.5.7-4 on-line manual pager
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