On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 09:37:53AM +0100, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 07:42:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Please note that the intention of the Lintian tag is not to complain > > about people using "Author(s)", but to catch people who have used > > dh-make and then never completed the relevant section of the > > resulting debian/copyright file, which I think we would all agree is > > an obvious RC bug. > > Yes, so can't we introduce a bogus line in dh-make's default copyright > file? Something like a trap for lintian? If this is really about > catching packages where the maintainer forgot to even think about > debian/copyright, this would work perfectly and probably without false > positives.
dh_make already inserts "put author's name and email here", I had guessed that lintian would check for that and error out otherwise, but if this is not yet the case, maybe it can be added. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
