Re: New check request: extra space in debian/rules
On Thursday 10 October 2002 11:31, Joel Baker wrote:
> As seen on debian-devel recently...
>
> I would like to request a new check from the lint tools, against source
> packages; the 'debian/rules' file should *not* have a trailing space after
> the "#! /usr/bin/make -f". While the porters are working on making the
> NetBSD arch liberal in what it accepts, our source packages should also try
> to be conservative in what they send. Having this will also permit us to
> get an estimate of the number of packages in the archive that this affects,
> which will determine how we handle bug filings on the issue.
>
> Comments, questions, rotten tomatos?
Implementing this should not be too difficult. However realize that at least
in lintian's case you must explicitly ask for a full source unpack and check
before this will occur.
I would wager that a patch would speed its acceptance, <wink>.
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