Bug#721672: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: "cme fix dpkg-copyright" may cause data loss if there is a paragraph with "File:" instead of "Files:"

Axel Beckert abe at debian.org
Mon Sep 2 23:43:51 UTC 2013


Package: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl
Severity: grave
Version: 2.038
Justification: may cause data loss

Hi,

"cme fix dpkg-copyright" deleted the following paragraph from
debian/copyright completely:

File: debian/patches/half_code_pod_errors.patch
Copyright: 2010, Frank Wiegand <fwie at cpan.org>
License: Artistic or GPL-1+

Reason seems that the author of the paragraph changed "Files" to "File"
because it affected only one file.

Yes, I know, this is incorrect syntax, but I would expect "fix" to fix
such stuff, not to just delete it.

(Feel free to downgrade the severity if the tool is really not intended
to work which don't abide 100% to the correct syntax (or an older
version of the syntax.)

		Regards, Axel
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