Package: lintian Version: 2.5.21 Severity: wishlist Heya, for contrib or non-free packages Policy ยง12.5 says (emphasis with asterisks mine):
Packages in the _contrib_ or _non-free_ archive areas *should* state in the copyright file that the package is not part of the Debian distribution and briefly explain why. Debian Copyright Format 1.0 documents the "Disclaimer" field as the appropriate place for such a statement (and points back to Policy 12.5): Disclaimer Formatted text, no synopsis: this field is used for non-free or contrib packages to state that they are not part of Debian and to explain why (see Debian Policy section 12.5). It would be very nice to have a corresponding Lintian check if the field is missing. I believe the conditions to trigger the check should be: - the package is in contrib or non-free, and - the package uses machine parseable debian/copyright, and - debian/copyright lacks the Disclaimer field How about it? (and, as usual, my deepest admiration and infinite thanks for maintaining lintian: the Debian world would be oh so much worse without it) Cheers. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.24-4 ii bzip2 1.0.6-5 ii diffstat 1.58-1 ii file 1:5.17-1 ii gettext 0.18.3.2-1 ii hardening-includes 2.5 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.30-7 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.36-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.6 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.192-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-2 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.06~01-2 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-1 ii liburi-perl 1.60-1 ii man-db 2.6.6-1 ii patchutils 0.3.2-3 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.18.2-2+b1 ii t1utils 1.37-2 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libautodie-perl 2.23-1 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-2 ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.18.2-2 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.17.6 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b1 ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1 ii libyaml-perl 0.84-1 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
