On Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:30:00 -0500, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
On 1/4/26 5:09 AM, Holger Levsen wrote:AFAIU, your copyright notice doesn't need to be updated yearly to stay valid, even if you add new changes. As such, I don't think Lintian should promote busy work.=== Tags I'm planning to remove === * update-debian-copyright:) I'd move it to pedantic.
Also, for team uploads, I'm not bumping other people's copyright years, and I'm not adding myself for a trivial routine update.
* debian-watch-does-not-check-openpgp-signature - last updated: 2018-12 - 35,725 entries in UDD - This tag was changed to Experimental because it was not really actionable (#916207). I feel this is outside of the scope of what a lintian tag should recommend.I disagree.Hmm ok, let's keep this one then.
:sadface:I think this is the lintian tag I hate the most, because (Meta)CPAN doesn't support signatures, so I'm seeing this tag for each and every update of a Perl package, and I can't do anything about it.
I remember the times when I had "lintian-clean" packages, and required this from new contributors. This ended with the invention of debian-watch-does-not-check-openpgp-signature (and since then many other questionable/unactionable tags).
Oh, and thanks for this cleanup initiative, which seems to go in the direction of making me a more happy lintian user again :)
Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe`-
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