Bug#672284: lintian: False positive: no-debian-copyright when packages supply debian/$pkgname.copyright

2020-08-02 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Mon, 14 May 2012, Jakub Wilk wrote: > But I always thought that we were supposed to documented license and > copyright holders of all files in the _source_ package, so having No. The copyright file exists for the binary packages, and the binary packages alone. ftpmasters require the complete

Bug#672284: lintian: False positive: no-debian-copyright when packages supply debian/$pkgname.copyright

2020-06-03 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi, > having > copyright files that vary with binary package doesn't make sense to me. I struggled with that as well while rewriting the copyright check. Lintian will soon ignore per-package copyrights in ./debian. It will also produce errors. Lintian may further print errors when copyright

Bug#672284: lintian: False positive: no-debian-copyright when packages supply debian/$pkgname.copyright

2012-05-14 Thread Russ Allbery
(There seems to be a bunch of UTF-8 damage in the quoted message.) Emanuele Rocca e...@debian.org writes: On 09/05 07:51, Jakub Wilk wrote: This is correct. It's a violation of Policy §12.5: “A copy of the file which will be installed in ‘/usr/share/doc/package/copyright’ should be in

Bug#672284: lintian: False positive: no-debian-copyright when packages supply debian/$pkgname.copyright

2012-05-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Russ Allbery r...@debian.org, 2012-05-14, 02:45: (There seems to be a bunch of UTF-8 damage in the quoted message.) Yes, BTS mangled my message. :( This is correct. It's a violation of Policy 12.5: A copy of the file which will be installed in '/usr/share/doc/package/copyright' should be

Bug#672284: lintian: False positive: no-debian-copyright when packages supply debian/$pkgname.copyright

2012-05-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes: But I always thought that we were supposed to documented license and copyright holders of all files in the _source_ package, so having copyright files that vary with binary package doesn't make sense to me. Well, we're supposed to document the copyright

Bug#672284: lintian: False positive: no-debian-copyright when packages supply debian/$pkgname.copyright

2012-05-09 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Emanuele Rocca e...@debian.org, 2012-05-09, 19:23: lintian reports a no-debian-copyright warning for packages that supply a copyright file in debian/$pkgname.copyright This is correct. It's a violation of Policy §12.5: “A copy of the file which will be installed in