Hi!
On Mon, 2026-01-05 at 14:30:00 -0500, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
> On 1/4/26 5:09 AM, Holger Levsen 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.
(Also) AFAIU it makes a difference for anonymous or pseudonymous
authorship, where the copyright term is 50 years after publication
(instead of author's death). Where my understanding would be that
later modifications and publication would reset that counter.
For authors with known identities, it might well be "busy work" but
I find (as was mentioned elsethread) to be a way to at least signal
freshness But then I don't lose any sleep over forgetting to update
those. :)
Thanks,
Guillem
