Re: Wish: sources cited in /usr/doc documentation
On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 04:22:10PM -0500, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
> I once did an informal survey of the packages installed here, and
> found that *many* lacked this information (maybe a quarter of them).
> I think the policy should be tightened, to require a strictly
> formatted line with a URL or keyword. That way, lintian could check
> for it. I'm thinking of something like this:
Adding strictness of the syntax to that rule (already a rule, since the
sentence contains 'must') wont help to the situation if the maintainers
themselves don't fix their copyright files.
Lintian can be very easily modified (grep? :) to check for any kind of URL.
The drawback of it is that there may be some URLs in the text but not
the actual source location.
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