Getting QtWebChannel ready for upload

Scott Kitterman debian at kitterman.com
Thu Jul 28 12:07:58 UTC 2016



On July 28, 2016 6:44:30 AM EDT, "Sandro Knauß" <bugs at sandroknauss.de> wrote:
>Hey,
>
>[snip]
>> - debian/copyright
>> * Copyright lines are not machine parseable, see
>> http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/
>Sorry I do not understand that - the copyright lines? If I look at 
>https://
>www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/  I see for
>the 
>paragraph for the copyright lines: "Any formatting is permitted"
>How can I make these lines non machine parsable if any format is
>allowed? 
>Can you please explain in more detail what is wrong? Are there any
>tools to 
>test the machine readability?

Use of the machine readable copyright format is entirely optional.  It's encouraged, thus the lintian check, but it's not a problem if it's not machine readable.

Scott K



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