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Re: announcement: lintian 0.2 package released



On Sun, Feb 15, 1998 at 02:21:49PM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote:
>
> (The problem with picon-usenix is that it installs an empty md5sums file.
> Provided md5sums is not required by policy, but if lintian detects such a
> control file it checks its contents and complains about any missing
> files... To fix this, either remove that control file or fill it--I don't 
> think that it's worth to have md5sums of the picon-* packages, since the
> md5sums file will require a lot of disk space!)

Agreed! I have now removed them. I have also fixed the spaces in the package
description that your lintian package did not like :)

> 
> BTW, there is an updated lintian package (version 0.2.1) sitting in
> Incoming/ . I'd suggest you (and all other maintainers as well) install
> this package and check all their new uploads with it before actually
> uploading anything. 

OK, so I've done, now all it complains about is that the standards version
is old. That I'll chnage when I've red the policy more thurally... (might
take some time :)

> 
> In case you discover any wrong lintian warnings/errors please contact me.
> I have an `overrides' file to suppress specific warnings/errors for a
> specific package.

OK, I will!

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