[SCM] swami/master: Reworked copyright file

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:02:58AM +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
>>Od: Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>
>
>>On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 06:51:52PM +0000, 
>>mira-guest at users.alioth.debian.org wrote:
>>>+Format-Specification:
>>http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?op=file&rev=135
>>
>>With rev. 135 of DEP5 format...
>>
>>>-Copyright:
>>>+Files: ./src/libswami/libswami.*
>>>+./src/libswami/SwamiContainer.*
>>>+./src/libswami/SwamiControl.*
>>
>>Files lists should be comma-separated and additional lines be 
>>indented.
>
>Ok
>
>>>+License: GPL-2+
>>[snip]
>>>+ 02111-1307, USA or point your web browser to http://www.gnu.org.
>>>+
>>>+X-Comment: On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
>>>+ Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2+'.
>>
>>...and your licensing comment should not have a space above it, to 
>>indicate its relation: you comment on that specific license, not the 
>>coypright file in general.
>
>Ok, thanks for hints. Package is not building ... so I did run lintian 
>yet.
>This usually warning me for problems like that.

Lintian is great in the same way as a dictionary: supports you with 
specific facts, but is never complete - you need to think for yourself 
anyway, and ideally all lintian warnings should only be reminders for 
you on things you already knew but just accidentally missed.

...In reality I guess noone knows all of the lintian facts by heart, but 
I still find it slightly worrysome if what you say is that you rely on 
lintian to "cover your ass" in packaging. :-)


  - Jonas

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