Package: lintian Version: 2.61.0 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, on my privoxy 3.0.28-2 package lintian reports the following two errors several times: I: privoxy source: unused-file-paragraph-in-dep5-copyright paragraph at line 19 I: privoxy source: wildcard-matches-nothing-in-dep5-copyright pcre/* (paragraph at line 39) on different line numbers. I didn't understand this, since all mentioned lines only contain file names, that do exist, but then I had a look into the orig.tar.gz file and there is the root cause: $ tar tfz privoxy_3.0.28.orig.tar.gz | head privoxy-3.0.28-stable/./acconfig.h privoxy-3.0.28-stable/./actionlist.h privoxy-3.0.28-stable/./actions.c privoxy-3.0.28-stable/./actions.h privoxy-3.0.28-stable/./AUTHORS privoxy-3.0.28-stable/./cgi.c ... The /./ in the filename (don't ask me, why upstream builds the tar.gz that way, but I don't like to repack orig.tar.gz, especially because this would break the upstream signature) annoys lintian. If I try the same with a repacked orig.tar.gz (without /./), the above error messages disappear. It would be great, if you could fix lintian to ignore the /./ in the path for dep5-copyright file matching. Greetings Roland
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