Bug#946026: lintian: check for tabs in formatted fields in debian/copyright

2019-12-03 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 01:36:18PM -0800, Felix Lechner wrote: > On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 11:03 AM Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > > > Thanks, it's all driven by the lintian table in UDD. :-) > > Are you able to cross-reference debug packages (#874017), or are you > not looking at them? I'm currently

Bug#946026: lintian: check for tabs in formatted fields in debian/copyright

2019-12-03 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Jelmer, On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 11:03 AM Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > Thanks, it's all driven by the lintian table in UDD. :-) Are you able to cross-reference debug packages (#874017), or are you not looking at them? > The common issue > appears to be people copy-n-pasting license texts that

Bug#946026: lintian: check for tabs in formatted fields in debian/copyright

2019-12-03 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Hi Felix, On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 09:02:17PM -0800, Felix Lechner wrote: > First of all, thank you for D-Janitor. We look forward to learning > more about it and would like to support your efforts. Thanks, it's all driven by the lintian table in UDD. :-) > On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 8:30 PM Jelmer

Bug#946026: lintian: check for tabs in formatted fields in debian/copyright

2019-12-02 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Jelmer, First of all, thank you for D-Janitor. We look forward to learning more about it and would like to support your efforts. On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 8:30 PM Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > It would be great if lintian could check for tab characters in the > various text paragraphs in

Bug#946026: lintian: check for tabs in formatted fields in debian/copyright

2019-12-02 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Package: lintian Version: 2.39.0 Severity: wishlist The debian/copyright machine readable standard mentions that the same formatting rules for its Formatted Text fields as for the long "Description" field in packages. https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/