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Bug#332770: Should check for editor's cruft



Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> writes:

> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.8
> Severity: wishlist

> Lintian should check for editor's left-about cruft such as semantic.cache
> files, *~ files, .foo.swp files, etc etc, both in sources and in binary
> packages.

Similar to the recent conversation about CVS directories, the source
package check should probably only be done in the diff or the tarball for
native packages, not on files from .orig.tar.gz.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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