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 now have, or will it be 2.2.19? > The replacement is the existing helper-templates-in-copyright tag, which I > think more accurately captures what is being checked here. This tag will > be output if any of the following strings are present in debian/copyright: > <fill in (?:http/)?ftp site> > <Must follow here> > <Put the license of the package here > <put author[\'\(]s\)? name and email here> > <Copyright \(C\) YYYY Name OfAuthor> > I believe it's reasonable to reject packages that contain debian/copyright > files with such strings, as I think they fairly clearly indicate that the > maintainer at least didn't clean up the copyright file, and probably > didn't finish filling it out. ACK on that, will use that tag then, i think. -- bye, Joerg Contrary to common belief, Arch:i386 is *not* the same as Arch: any. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
