Bug#789568: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: unrecognized typo in deb/copyright DEP-3 header

Daniel Stender debian at danielstender.com
Mon Jun 22 11:55:09 UTC 2015


On 22.06.2015 13:42, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> On Monday 22 June 2015 11:06:01 you wrote:
>> my installed package doesn't complain about "Ups*te*am-Contact":
>>
>> $ cat debian/copyright | grep Contact
>> Upsteam-Contact: Jason Simeone <jay at classless.net>
>>
>> $ cme check dpkg-copyright
>> cme: using Dpkg::Copyright model
>> loading data
>> checking data
>> check done
>>
>> I would guess this is a bug?
> 
> Unfortunately, the DEP-5 spec [1] mentions that:
> - "Extra fields can be added to any paragraph."
> - Upstream-Contact field is optional.
> 
> So you file is correct from the spec point of view. 
> 
> I don't know what can be done to improve the output of cme for this case.
> 
> May be add a note (not a warning) when an extra field is found?
> 
> All the best
> 
> [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/

Ah, o.k. Thanks for rechecking and considerations.

DS

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