Bug#409104: lintian: Add new informational message - no-watch-file-exists
merge 234202 409104
thanks
Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.27
> Severity: wishlist
> The use of debian/watch fiel shoudl be encourages, so lintian could
> print informational message suggesting user to add one.
This is a duplicate of #234202.
The problem with doing this is the high risk of false positives. There
are a lot of non-native packages for which a watch file is not meaningful.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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