On Wed, Oct 28, 2026 at 11:52:51PM +0800, Maytham Alsudany wrote: > *Warnings (W)* > The displayed message might be a policy violation or packaging error. > A warning is usually an indication that the check is known to > sometimes produce false positive alarms, because either the > corresponding rule in policy has many exceptions or the check uses > some sort of heuristic to find errors. > > *Info (I)* > The displayed message is meant to inform the maintainer about a > certain packaging aspect. Such messages do not usually indicate > errors, but might still be of interest to the curious. They are not > displayed unless the ``-I`` option is set. > > So wouldn't it make sense for this to be a warning since its a > "packaging error"? Most packages[2] generally use DEP5 and contributors > generally expect d/copyright to be in DEP5 format.
>From these descriptions, IMO, Info is the correct one. I don't think it can be considered an error if a package lacks something that's completely optional. What *should* be an error is if someone tries to use DEP5 but the copyright file cannot be properly parsed, but we've already got a number of checks for that sort of thing. noah
