Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

To: debacle@debian.org
Cc: Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless
From: Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:42:27 +0200
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Scripsit "W. Borgert" <debacle@debian.org>
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:55:20AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:

>>   Idea 1:
>>     lintian: W: /usr/share/doc/README contains installation instructions

> I like that one.

Yes - but how should Lintian detect it?  Of course one could look for
lines that start with whitespace plus "./configure ", but how reliable
is that?

-- 
Henning Makholm              "Wir kommen nun ans Ziel unserer Ausführungen."

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