On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 12:10:24AM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote: > On 25/10/26 3:13 pm, Sean Whitton wrote: > > Package: lintian > > Version: 2.143.0 > > X-debbugs-cc: [email protected] > > > > Dear maintainer, > > > > Policy is very clear that using the DEP5 copyright format is optional. > > Therefore, it should not have been upgraded from informative to warning. > > I bumped it to warning as the DFSG team wanted that to happen. I am of the > opinion that warning is the right severity - it is high time that we move > to a machine readable copyright for all packages at this point.
Lintian is the wrong venue. If you want to change Policy use the Policy process. Otherwise this presents a breach of collegiality. Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
