Re: Lintian checks and debian/copyright boilerplate

2009-11-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Joerg Jaspert writes: > On 11933 March 1977, Russ Allbery wrote: >> The next upload of Lintian will remove the check for "Author(s)", since >> it's very prone to false positives and isn't checking what it's supposed >> to be checking. Thank you very much to Manoj for his work on verifying >> thi

Re: Lintian checks and debian/copyright boilerplate

2009-11-16 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11933 March 1977, Russ Allbery wrote: > The next upload of Lintian will remove the check for "Author(s)", since > it's very prone to false positives and isn't checking what it's supposed > to be checking. Thank you very much to Manoj for his work on verifying > this tag. Is that the 2.2.18 we

Lintian checks and debian/copyright boilerplate

2009-11-12 Thread Russ Allbery
The next upload of Lintian will remove the check for "Author(s)", since it's very prone to false positives and isn't checking what it's supposed to be checking. Thank you very much to Manoj for his work on verifying this tag. The copyright-lists-upstream-authors-with-dh_make-boilerplate tag will