Bug#452215: Add a check to make sure the .diff.gz is clean when debian/patches is used
Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.36
> Severity: wishlist
>
> It would be nice to have some warnings in case the modification in
> .diff.gz go out of the scope of debian/ despite the existence of
> debian/patches (altough also reporting when the package build-depends on
> dpatch or quilt shouldn't harm).
>
> This is based on the idea that if debian/patches is used it means the
> maintainer may have done something wrong (.patch left behind under some
> dir? what about a somedir.orig forgotten?).
This is a very good idea. I'll work on including something like that in
the next release.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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