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Ryan Niebur <r...@debian.org> writes: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:03:06PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 03:59:52PM -0700, Ryan Niebur wrote: >>> I completely disagree with this lintian warning and prefer to use >>> "Author(s)". >> I do agree that rejecting on this is probably excessive but I'm curious >> as to why you think it's incorrect? > I prefer "Author(s)". Less text to update when a new author is > added. It does no harm and affects nothing in the end result. I'm > curious as to why you think "Author(s)" is a bad thing? Please note that the intention of the Lintian tag is not to complain about people using "Author(s)", but to catch people who have used dh-make and then never completed the relevant section of the resulting debian/copyright file, which I think we would all agree is an obvious RC bug. As a Lintian maintainer, I would certainly welcome refinements of the regex that tries to detect this case. I suspect any of Ryan's packages caught by this are false positives, which as with any false positive except for the well-defined cases where overrides are explicitly requested (such as setuid programs) is a bug in Lintian. As with any bug, it may be more or less easy to fix. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
