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Bug#235735: lintian: CVS / .cvsignore terminology could be better



On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:44:31AM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:57:17AM -0600, Christopher L Cheney wrote:
> > Package: lintian
> > Version: 1.22.11
> > Severity: minor
> > 
> > The terminology used for saying that a CVS or .cvsignore file is
> > included could be better. Specifically:
> > 
> > It may have been installed by accident.
> > It may have been included by accident.
                     ^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > And since cvs export doesn't even get rid of .cvsignore files the amount
> > of them in the archive is probably pretty high. Anyone using cvs and not
> > using something like autotools "make dist" to produce tarballs likely
> > will have them in source.
> 
> Any suggestions? Especially about the terminology?
> 
> --Jeroen

The second line above was my suggestion, since you don't really install
files into a source, they might be included by accident however. ;)

Chris

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