On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mathieu Parent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Package: lintian > > Version: 1.23.46 > > Severity: wishlist > > Tags: patch > > > > The files add checks for the proposal: > > http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat > > > > I hope this implementation will help to clarify things. > > > > To enable, copy: > > - copyright-specification to /usr/share/lintian/checks/ > > - copyright-specification.desc to /usr/share/lintian/checks/ > > - DebianCopyrightParser.pm to /usr/share/lintian/lib > > lib/Lintian/Parse/Copyright.pm or something along those lines would be > better. I'm trying to move lintian into a proper Perl namespace habit so > that eventually we can install the lintian Perl modules into the regular > Perl module search path.
Ok > > and check with -I > > It might be a bit premature to warn if people aren't using that format. > I've personally not started using it, for example, largely because it > doesn't yet have a standardized way of including all the things that > *aren't* just copyrights and licenses that belong in debian/copyright. > > Checking the syntax if people are using it is certainly a good idea. It it like it behave: it checks for the format-specification field. If it does not exists then it only shows an I: debian-copyright-no-specification. If it exists, the checks go deeper. Most of the following checks gives a warning. > -- > Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
