From the Lintian User Manual: *Errors (E)* The displayed message indicates a policy violation or a packaging error. For policy violations, Lintian will cite the appropriate policy section when it is invoked with the ``-i`` option.
*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. -- Maytham [1] https://lintian.debian.org/manual/index.html#lintian-tags [2] https://trends.debian.net/#copyright-format-machine-readable-dep-5-vs-old-format
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