Your message dated Fri, 09 Mar 2018 01:58:15 +0000 with message-id <1520560695.2769694.1296824184.43309...@webmail.messagingengine.com> and subject line Re: Bug#892086: lintian: Check for unknown fields in dep5 debian/copyright has caused the Debian Bug report #892086, regarding lintian: Check for unknown fields in dep5 debian/copyright to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: lintian Version: 2.5.76 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, by mistake I had used an "Author" field in a dep5 copyright file, and lintian doesn't complain about unknown fields. It would be nice to have a warning about this, since it's normally a mistake. Best -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to it_IT.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=it (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to it_IT.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.30-5 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1 ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1 ii dpkg 1.19.0.5 ii file 1:5.32-2 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-4 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.33 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.60-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1 ii libclone-perl 0.39-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.96-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12 ii libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.1-5 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.73-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.24-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.69+repack-1 ii man-db 2.8.1-1 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.26.1-5 ii t1utils 1.41-2 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b4 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.5 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2 pn libtext-template-perl <none> -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---tags 892086 + wontfix thanks Hi Salvo, > At the top. Is it allowed? I didn't see it in the dep5 spec. It is indeed allowed. Section 4 ("File syntax") of: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#file-syntax "Extra fields can be added to any paragraph." Closing bug to match. :) Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` [email protected] / chris-lamb.co.uk `-
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