Re: Cleaning out Lintian's "Experimental: yes" tags

Andrey Rakhmatullin <[email protected]> Tue, 6 Jan 2026 00:51:19 +0500

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On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 02:30:00PM -0500, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
>>>* update-debian-copyright
>>>  - last updated: 2022-12
>>>  - 22,597 entries in UDD
>>>  - This tag was highly controversial when it was implemented and I don't see its usefulness.
>>
>>:) I'd move it to pedantic.
>
>It's already pedantic ("Experimental: yes" is another thing 
>altogether). I would strongly oppose to moving this back to 
>"Experimental: no" as many, many people (including me) complained 
>about this tag.
>
>AFAIU, your copyright notice doesn't need to be updated yearly to stay 
>valid, even if you add new changes. As such, I don't think Lintian 
>should promote busy work.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/01/08/copyright-without-years/

(no idea what's the ftp-master stance on this)

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