Package: lintian Version: 2.5.22.1 Severity: minor Tags: patch The Files-Excluded field in debian/copyright is used to exclude files from our "not-so-pristine" upstream source. It is meant to discard non-DFSG files. The field will be ignored by uscan if the copyright file is not declared as following the format 1.0.
Note that I have not tested the patch I'm sending, I just somehow hope it works ;-) -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.24-5 ii bzip2 1.0.6-5 ii diffstat 1.58-1 ii file 1:5.17-1 ii gettext 0.18.3.2-1 ii hardening-includes 2.5 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.37-2 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.36-1 ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.88-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.6 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.192-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-2 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.06~01-2 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-1 ii liburi-perl 1.60-1 ii man-db 2.6.6-1 ii patchutils 0.3.2-3 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.18.2-2+b1 ii t1utils 1.37-2 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libautodie-perl 2.25-1 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-2 ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.18.2-2 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.17.6 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b1 ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1 ii libyaml-perl 0.84-1 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 -- no debconf information
diff --git a/copyright-file.desc b/copyright-file.desc index 28683aa..0bbeef3 100644 --- a/copyright-file.desc +++ b/copyright-file.desc @@ -420,3 +420,17 @@ Info: The copyright file has lines ending in CRLF instead of just LF. <tt>CR</tt> character in the file: . <tt>sed -i 's/\r//g' path/to/file</tt> + +Tag: files-excluded-ignored-without-copyright-format-1.0 +Severity: serious +Certainty: certain +Info: You have included a Files-Excluded field in your + debian/copyright, but the copyright format is not declared as the + finalised 1.0 revision. Uscan will ignore this field. + . + Make sure your debian/copyright starts with the following line: + . + Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ + . + Of course, you will have to use the format throughout (that is, list + the licenses in a programatically readable way) diff --git a/copyright-file.pm b/copyright-file.pm index d910fca..43f5940 100644 --- a/copyright-file.pm +++ b/copyright-file.pm @@ -338,6 +338,18 @@ sub run { } } + # debian/copyright has, via the Files-Excluded field, the ability + # to alter uscan's behaviour. uscan will ignore, though, this file + # if the format is not declared as copyright-format 1.0 + # + # Note: I'm unsure whether it checks for version 1.0 or higher, + # this should probably be checked against uscan's source. + if (m/^Files-Excluded:/ and + ! m!^Format:.*doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0! + ) { + tag 'files-excluded-ignored-without-copyright-format-1.0'; + } + return; } # </run>