Bug#423096: lintian: Please do independent check of extra whitespace in doc-base files
Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz <rodrigo@nul-unu.com> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.30
> Severity: minor
> The doc-base-file-no-format check fails if the doc-base file has empty
> lines at the end. Aparently it believes them to be an extra section,
> which lacks a Format: field. This causes a (mildly) confusing error message.
> I think lintian should check independently for such mistake and report
> it as its own error (warning?) kind. Alternatively, you could reword
> this check's verbose explanation, perhaps something along the lines
> of:
It looks like the doc-base specification says blank lines are fine, so I'm
fixing the test so that it doesn't produce a false positive on blank
lines. Thanks for the report!
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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