Control: reassign -1 debian-policy Control: retitle -1 debian-policy: Clarifiy DEP5 copyright field example
Dear policy maintainers, I am reassigning this Lintian bug to you, because I believe it was caused by an example in the policy. (Full context below) In a nut shell, I suspect the problem is the following part of copyright-format/1.0/ specificiation: """ Copyright [...] The Copyright field for that paragraph would contain: Copyright 2008 John Smith Copyright 2009, 2010 Angela Watts [...] """ The casual reader may misread this as: """ Copyright: 2008 John Smith Copyright: 2009, 2010 Angela Watts """ I.e. as two single-line fields that are both named "Copyright". I think it would be prudent to rewrite this to something like: """ The Copyright field for that paragraph could look like: Copyright: Copyright 2008 John Smith Copyright 2009, 2010 Angela Watts """ ~Niels As promised, the context is On 2013-02-25 21:50, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2013-02-25 21:37, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: >> Package: lintian >> Version: 2.5.11 >> Severity: minor >> >> Correct me if I am wrong or if I lack some coffee, please, but with this >> copyright file: >> >> ===== >> Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ >> Upstream-Name: name >> Upstream-Contact: Somebody >> >> Files: file1.c file2.c >> Copyright: 2000, 2001 Foo >> Copyright: 2001, 2002 Bar >> License: BSD-Like >> ===== >> >> I am seeing this: >> >> W: test source: syntax-error-in-dep5-copyright line 7: Duplicate field >> copyright. >> > > The specification says the syntax of these files are that of Policy ยง5.1 > and said specification do not allow duplicate fields in a given paragraph. > >> In >> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#copyright-field >> we can see an example with two "Copyright" lines. >> > > The example may be confusing, but what you see is not a two fields, but > "the contents of the field"[1]. > >> It seems that lintian should not warn for duplicates copyright fields? >> > > My reading is that duplicate fields are a violation of the syntax. > >> Thank you! >> >> Best regards, >> Nelson >> >> [...] > > ~Niels > > [1] Note the (by me emphased) singular "field". > > """ > _The Copyright field_ for that paragraph would contain: > """ > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
