Maytham Alsudany [28/Oct 11:52pm +08] wrote: > From the Lintian User Manual: > > *Errors (E)* > The displayed message indicates a policy violation or a packaging > error. For policy violations, Lintian will cite the appropriate > policy section when it is invoked with the ``-i`` option. > > *Warnings (W)* > The displayed message might be a policy violation or packaging error. > A warning is usually an indication that the check is known to > sometimes produce false positive alarms, because either the > corresponding rule in policy has many exceptions or the check uses > some sort of heuristic to find errors. > > *Info (I)* > The displayed message is meant to inform the maintainer about a > certain packaging aspect. Such messages do not usually indicate > errors, but might still be of interest to the curious. They are not > displayed unless the ``-I`` option is set. > > So wouldn't it make sense for this to be a warning since its a > "packaging error"? Most packages[2] generally use DEP5 and contributors > generally expect d/copyright to be in DEP5 format.
"Error" is a strong word. It can't be an error to do something Policy explicitly allows you to do. -- Sean Whitton
