On Mon, 2026-10-26 at 00:10 +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote: > On 25/10/26 3:13 pm, Sean Whitton wrote: > > Package: lintian > > Version: 2.143.0 > > X-debbugs-cc: [email protected] > > > > Dear maintainer, > > > > Policy is very clear that using the DEP5 copyright format is > > optional. > > Therefore, it should not have been upgraded from informative to > > warning. > > I bumped it to warning as the DFSG team wanted that to happen. I am > of the opinion that warning is the right severity - it is high time > that we move to a machine readable copyright for all packages at this > point. > > I've CC'ed the dfsg team on this. If they agree upon it, I will > downgrade it to info.
The team have discussed it a number of times, and we do want to move in this direction. My hope was that we can propose the appropriate policy changes after the Forky release, but if people want us to do that sooner then I'm happy to start that process. Thanks, Andrew. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Porirua, New Zealand +64 (27) 288 6741 https://andrew.mcmillan.net.nz Though a superhero, Bruce Schneier disdains the use of a mask or secret identity as 'security through obscurity'. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
