Nilesh Patra [26/Oct 12:10am +0530] 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.
Some people deliberately don't use it because they see it as make-work. There are circumstances in which DEP-5 either requires or encourages doing more work than writing a (perfectly DFSG-compliant) non-DEP-5 copyright file does. There isn't a whole project consensus that it's an unadulterated good. > I've CC'ed the dfsg team on this. If they agree upon it, I will downgrade > it to info. Since you bumped it in response to their request, that sounds reasonable, but as I say I think this falls under the purview of Policy not the DFSG team. -- Sean Whitton
