Package: dpkg
Version: 1.13.21
Severity: important

In the man pages for both dpkg-deb and dpkg-split, the following is
written (minus the programm name, of course):

       dpkg-deb and this manpage were written by Ian Jackson.  They are  Copy-
       right  (C)  1995-1996  by him and released under the GNU General Public
       Licence; there is NO WARRANTY.  See  /usr/share/doc/dpkg/copyright  and
       /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL for details.

Note the missing "2" (also "no later" clause). If this were true, the
cited document reference would be wrong and the license would be
missing from /usr/share/doc/dpkg/copyright.

I checked the sources and they claim:
 * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
 * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2,
 * or (at your option) any later version.

So I assume this is an oversight in the man page (thats why I reported 
it only as important). While fixing the copyright statement you might
unify the phrasing in all copyright statements in the man pages.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.6-grsec-cz03
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  coreutils                     5.96-3     The GNU core utilities
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries

dpkg recommends no packages.

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