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Re: bogus lintian warning



Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:

> dpkg-buildpackage in a cvs-checkout directory with strange things in the
> parent dir, for example, because of test builds leaving weird shit on the
> parent directory + lack of coffee + typing dpkg-buildpackage instead of
> cvs-buildpackage.  

Easily caught: check to make sure the CVS files are not in the
.orig.tz before complaining.

> It gets "I was too sleepy to think straight" type of errors.
>
> And it also tells you when upstream screwed up their dist-clean target,
> which is quite useful too.

No; it should not report uncorrectible warnings.



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