Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.36
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
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At the moment debian/changelog and debian/control are checked for
UTF-8 encoding. Adding a check for debian/copyright might be a good
idea.
Find attached a preliminary patch that implements such a check (at
level "warning").
Cheers,
gregor
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'testing'), (500,
'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.200711171634
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Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20071027-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.7 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.21-3 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.16.1-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.5.0-3 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
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diff -Nru /tmp/28gM8XZP5u/lintian-1.23.36/checks/copyright-file
/tmp/GBmQyneRlO/lintian-1.23.37/checks/copyright-file
--- /tmp/28gM8XZP5u/lintian-1.23.36/checks/copyright-file 2007-10-16
05:30:43.000000000 +0200
+++ /tmp/GBmQyneRlO/lintian-1.23.37/checks/copyright-file 2007-11-17
20:49:08.000000000 +0100
@@ -131,6 +131,12 @@
tag "no-copyright-file", "";
}
+# check that copyright is UTF-8 encoded
+my $line = file_is_encoded_in_non_utf8("copyright", $type, $pkg);
+if ($line) {
+ tag "debian-copyright-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding", "at line
$line"
+}
+
# check contents of copyright file
open(IN, '<', "copyright") or fail("cannot open copyright file copyright: $!");
# gulp whole file
diff -Nru /tmp/28gM8XZP5u/lintian-1.23.36/checks/copyright-file.desc
/tmp/GBmQyneRlO/lintian-1.23.37/checks/copyright-file.desc
--- /tmp/28gM8XZP5u/lintian-1.23.36/checks/copyright-file.desc 2007-01-30
20:05:10.000000000 +0100
+++ /tmp/GBmQyneRlO/lintian-1.23.37/checks/copyright-file.desc 2007-11-17
19:53:54.000000000 +0100
@@ -147,3 +147,14 @@
remove the "(" and ")".
.
o/~ join us now and carefully edit debian/copyright files! o/~
+
+Tag: debian-copyright-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding
+Type: warning
+Info: The Debian copyright file should be valid UTF-8, an encoding of
+ the Unicode character set.
+ .
+ There are many ways to convert a copyright file from an obsoleted encoding
+ like ISO-8859-1; you may for example use "iconv" like:
+ .
+ $ iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 copyright > copyright.new
+ $ mv copyright.new copyright
diff -Nru /tmp/28gM8XZP5u/lintian-1.23.36/debian/changelog
/tmp/GBmQyneRlO/lintian-1.23.37/debian/changelog
--- /tmp/28gM8XZP5u/lintian-1.23.36/debian/changelog 2007-10-16
06:23:16.000000000 +0200
+++ /tmp/GBmQyneRlO/lintian-1.23.37/debian/changelog 2007-11-17
19:57:46.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+lintian (1.23.37) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * checks/copyright-file{,.desc}:
+ + [GH] Check that encoding of copyright file is UTF-8, stolen from
+ checks/control-file{,.desc}.
+
+ -- gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:40:14 +0100
+
lintian (1.23.36) unstable; urgency=low
The "grand open change and desktop cleanup" release.
