Quoting [email protected] (2026-02-28 10:31:14)
> The Debian NEW review of rust-io-timer 0.0.1+ds-1 has been completed.
> 
> Decision: ACCEPTED
> Reviewer: Andrew McMillan
> 
> Review comment:
> 
> Lintian has a couple of warnings about your debian/copyroght file,
> but I read them twice and I can't figure out what's triggering it.
> It all looks fine to me...

I believe all those three Lintian warnings to be false.

> rust-io-timer source: missing-debian-watch-file-standard [debian/watch]

It is not mandatory for a package to have a watch file, and Lintian
evidently is unaware that recent versions of uscan supports using
debian/upstream/ as source of truth when debian/watch is omitted.

> License is in Reference field (see bug#786450)
> rust-io-timer source: missing-license-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright gpl-3+ 
> [debian/copyright:31]

> rust-io-timer source: missing-license-text-in-dep5-copyright GPL-3+ 
> [debian/copyright:74]

These are already overridden (hence the reference to a bugreport).

The issue is interpretation of "Stanza" (a.k.a. paragraph) vs. field in
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#stand-alone-license-stanza

The License stanza "can be used to provide the full license text".
Lintian requires the license field in the stand-alone license stanza to
be a multi-line field, where I provide the information using a
single-line license field and a Reference field.

 - Jonas

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