This strikes me as a good idea, unless someone has a legit reason to include an empty documentations file in a package. So speak up if you do. Maybe a zero length TODO could be considered to have some implied meaning, but I've seen zero length everything including AUTHORS and README and NEWS. ----- Forwarded message from Thomas Viehmann <tv@beamnet.de> ----- From: Thomas Viehmann <tv@beamnet.de> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:29:59 +0200 To: Debian Bug Tracking System <maintonly@bugs.debian.org> Subject: Bug#200905: dh_installdocs: don't install empty doc files Reply-To: Thomas Viehmann <tv@beamnet.de>, 200905-maintonly@bugs.debian.org Organization: beamNet X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-17.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_01,DEBIAN_BTS_BUG,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,RCVD_IN_NJABL, USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA,X_LOOP autolearn=ham version=2.55 Package: debhelper Version: 4.1.52 Severity: wishlist Hi Joey. Thanks for all the things debhelper does right for me. I get lintian warnings for empty files in /usr/share/doc (e.g. TODO which will sometimes be filled by upstream, sometimes be empty). It would be cool to have debhelper (optionally?) discard those when they lack content. Cheers T. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux hardy 2.4.19-tv #1 Tue Mar 18 10:23:25 CET 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.14.90.0.4-0.1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii coreutils 5.0-4 The GNU core utilities ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.0-4 The GNU core utilities ii debconf-utils 1.2.42 debconf utilities ii dpkg-dev 1.10.10 Package building tools for Debian ii file 4.02-4 Determines file type using "magic" ii fileutils 4.1-10 GNU file management utilities ii html2text 1.3.0.1-1 An advanced HTML to text converter ii perl 5.8.0-18 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii po-debconf 0.6.9 Manage translated Debconf template ----- End forwarded message ----- -- see shy jo
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