Package: lintian Version: 2.5.38~bpo8+1 Severity: normal With lintian 2.5.30+deb8u4 from jessie as well as with lintian (nowadays outdated version) 2.5.35~bpo8+1 from jessie-backports everything is fine:
% lintian --info foo.changes | grep -A13 copyright-without-copyright-notice W: foo: copyright-without-copyright-notice N: N: The copyright file for this package does not appear to contain a N: copyright notice. You should copy the copyright notice from the upstream N: source (or add one of your own for a native package). A copyright notice N: must consist of Copyright, Copr., or the Unicode symbol of C in a circle N: followed by the years and the copyright holder. A copyright notice is N: not required for a work to be copyrighted, but Debian requires the N: copyright file include the authors and years of copyright, and including N: a valid copyright notice is the best way to do that. Examples: N: N: Copyright YYYY Firstname Lastname <addr...@example.com> N: Copr. YYYY-YYYY Firstname Lastname <addr...@example.com> N: © YYYY,YYYY Firstname Lastname <addr...@example.com> -- With lintian 2.5.38~bpo8+1 from jessie-backports the last "Firstname Lastname" line has a broken encoding for the copyright character: % lintian --info foo.changes | grep -A13 copyright-without-copyright-notice W: foo: copyright-without-copyright-notice N: N: The copyright file for this package does not appear to contain a N: copyright notice. You should copy the copyright notice from the upstream N: source (or add one of your own for a native package). A copyright notice N: must consist of Copyright, Copr., or the Unicode symbol of C in a circle N: followed by the years and the copyright holder. A copyright notice is N: not required for a work to be copyrighted, but Debian requires the N: copyright file include the authors and years of copyright, and including N: a valid copyright notice is the best way to do that. Examples: N: N: Copyright YYYY Firstname Lastname <addr...@example.com> N: Copr. YYYY-YYYY Firstname Lastname <addr...@example.com> N: � YYYY,YYYY Firstname Lastname <addr...@example.com> -- I can reproduce this on multiple Debian/jessie systems. regards, Michael
