Bug#553697: lintian: quilt-patch-missing-description is not triggered by git patches
Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.17
Severity: normal
Often I drop patches into debian/patches straight from git, rather
than using quilt to generate them directly. They start like this:
diff --git a/po/enscript.pot b/po/enscript.pot
index eb39593..7258d2f 100644
--- a/po/enscript.pot
+++ b/po/enscript.pot
But lintian does not give me a quilt-patch-missing-description notice
for those patches as I would expect.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.20-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.4.1 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.03-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-8 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen
ii libipc-run-perl 0.84-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1900-1 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.6-3 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available)
ii man-db 2.5.6-3 on-line manual pager
-- no debconf information
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