Bug#482040: [checks/patch-systems] check 00list.$ARCH for dpatch
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.48
Severity: wishlist
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:36:28AM +0200, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Frank Lichtenheld schrieb am Tue 20. May, 03:44 (+0200):
> > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 06:53:07PM +0200, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> > > > If you take a look at the code you will see that this is just a very big
> > > > cpp wrapper ;) The problem that the outcome of the test would depend on
> > > > the architecture you run lintian on remains.
> > >
> > > What do you think about this patch? It simply removes all C and C++
> > > comments.
> >
> > Yeah, I think that should suffice for now.
>
> BTW: You don't check list.$ARCH
>
> man dpatch:
> However, there may be situations where something more flexible is
> needed, like applying the same patch on only two architectures, say,
> m68k and powerpc. One solve this in at least two very different ways:
> One is to list the same patch in both debian/patches/00list.m68k and
> debian/patches/00list.powerpc, […]
>
> You might simply check all files 00list.*.
Let's file this as a bug for now.
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
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