Bug#398898: lintian: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory bogus complain on files in examples
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.25
Severity: normal
Rsyncrypto is a package that performs rsync friendly encryption. The
package comes bundled with a "tests" directory, that gets installed into
/usr/share/doc/rsyncrypto/examples/tests. This directory contains known
plain texts, cipher texts and keys so that regression testing and
comparisons can be run.
Some of the files in said directory are records of when the internal
decision function decided to perform an IV reset. For some of the
regression testing files (reg1 and reg2), this file is empty.
When running version 0.18-1 (the version that introduced the tests
direcotry under examples) through lintian, I get the complaint:
O: rsyncrypto: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory
usr/share/doc/rsyncrypto/examples/tests/reg1.rot
O: rsyncrypto: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory
usr/share/doc/rsyncrypto/examples/tests/reg2.rot
(as you can see, I did an override). I believe that the override is
unnecessary, and the files under /usr/share/doc/*/examples should not be
checked for non-emptyness.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=he_IL (charmap=ISO-8859-8)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.17-3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.43-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.22 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.17-4 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.14.6-1 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.4.3-3 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5-pe 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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