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Bug#101325: marked as done ([checks/*] only check metadata for empty packages)

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and subject line lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't need a copyright file
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Package: lintian
Severity: normal

Hi,

lintian complains about empty packages not having a copyright file. I
think it should silently accept empty packages (Severity set to normal
because it might actually stop packages from being installed).

   Simon

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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 10:40:22 +0100
From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>
Cc: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Empty package

On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 04:46:20PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote:
>       Thanks, Julian.  This works like a charm, but Lintian has the
> following objections:
>
> E: dict-web1913: no-copyright-file
> W: dict-web1913: prerm-does-not-remove-usr-doc-link
> W: dict-web1913: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link
>
>      Will the Lintian error prevent it from being installed?

Shouldn't do; there is no content there to need a copyright.

   Julian

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Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de> writes:

> lintian complains about empty packages not having a copyright file. I
> think it should silently accept empty packages (Severity set to normal
> because it might actually stop packages from being installed).

Policy 12.5 explicitly requires all Debian packages to install a copyright
file or a symlink to the copyright file provided by another package.  No
exceptions are made for empty packages.  Given that, I don't believe this
bug is valid and am closing it.

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