lintian: r828 - in trunk: checks debian
Author: rra
Date: 2007-02-27 09:29:35 +0100 (Tue, 27 Feb 2007)
New Revision: 828
Modified:
trunk/checks/cruft.desc
trunk/debian/changelog
Log:
* checks/cruft{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Mention that including CVS or .svn directories in a release
tarball should generally be reported as an upstream bug. Qualify
the statement that export should be used instead of checkout to
refer to snapshot packaging. Thanks, Jari Aalto. (Closes: #373668)
Modified: trunk/checks/cruft.desc
===================================================================
--- trunk/checks/cruft.desc 2007-02-27 07:54:49 UTC (rev 827)
+++ trunk/checks/cruft.desc 2007-02-27 08:29:35 UTC (rev 828)
@@ -60,7 +60,10 @@
Type: warning
Info: Source contains a .svn directory. It was most likely included by
accident, since Subversion version control directories usually don't belong
- in packages. Export from subversion rather than checkout.
+ in packages. When packaging a Subversion snapshot, export from
+ subversion rather than checkout. If an upstream release tarball contains
+ .svn directories, this should be reported as a bug to upstream since it
+ can double the size of the tarball to no purpose.
Tag: source-contains-bzr-control-dir
Type: warning
@@ -78,7 +81,9 @@
Type: warning
Info: Package contains a CVS directory. It was most likely included by
accident, since transient CVS data usually doesn't belong in packages.
- Export from CVS rather than use a checkout.
+ When packaging a CVS snapshot, export from CVS rather than use a
+ checkout. If an upstream release tarball contains CVS directories,
+ you usually should report this as a bug to upstream.
Tag: source-contains-cvs-conflict-copy
Type: warning
Modified: trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- trunk/debian/changelog 2007-02-27 07:54:49 UTC (rev 827)
+++ trunk/debian/changelog 2007-02-27 08:29:35 UTC (rev 828)
@@ -12,10 +12,14 @@
* checks/control-file:
+ [RA] Allow source in main to generate contrib packages. Thanks,
Bdale Garbee. (Closes: #401881)
- * checks/cruft:
+ * checks/cruft{.desc,}:
+ [RA] Use Dep to check autotools-dev build dependency rather than
rolling our own dependency parsing, thus avoiding problems when it's
the first dependency. Thanks, Tilman Koschnick. (Closes: #412406)
+ + [RA] Mention that including CVS or .svn directories in a release
+ tarball should generally be reported as an upstream bug. Qualify
+ the statement that export should be used instead of checkout to
+ refer to snapshot packaging. Thanks, Jari Aalto. (Closes: #373668)
* checks/debhelper.desc:
+ [RA] Use consistent file naming when diagnosing possibly conflicting
debhelper compat settings. Thanks, Jari Aalto. (Closes: #409122)
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