On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 02:30:00PM -0500, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
* update-debian-copyright - last updated: 2022-12 - 22,597 entries in UDD - This tag was highly controversial when it was implemented and I don't see its usefulness.:) I'd move it to pedantic.It's already pedantic ("Experimental: yes" is another thing altogether). I would strongly oppose to moving this back to "Experimental: no" as many, many people (including me) complained about this tag.AFAIU, your copyright notice doesn't need to be updated yearly to stay valid, even if you add new changes. As such, I don't think Lintian should promote busy work.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/01/08/copyright-without-years/ (no idea what's the ftp-master stance on this) -- WBR, wRAR
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