Bug#409124: lintian: Add INFO to report trailing newlines and expty whitespace at the end of lines
Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.27
> Severity: wishlist
> It would be nice if there were and INFO level notice to report:
> - Extra empty newlines at the end of file
> - Trailining whitepace at the end of lines
> Usually these are just careless mistakes that are easily overlooked and
> they appear in patch. Paying attention to these could help making files
> in debian/* more strict.
I think info level is too strong for this. I'd rather wait until we have
better tagging and an explicit aesthetics category.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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