Bug#482869: lintian: no-md5sums-control-file false positive on package containing only conffiles
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 12:30:54PM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> I have a package that contains only conffiles and directories. (It works
> with another package that can, among other things, be used as a network
> server, by providing scripts and a directory hierarchy to make that easy.)
[...]
> Naturally enough, dh_md5sums does not produce a checksums file for this
> package, which makes lintian object:
>
> $ lintian -I monotone_0.40-3_amd64.changes
> I: monotone-server: no-md5sums-control-file
>
> Please consider having this check verify that there are regular files in
> the package that are not conffiles.
Hmm, I wonder if it wouldn't be better for dh_md5sums to generate an
empty md5sums file in this case to make it clear that it checked but
found no files that needed to be listed.
Otherwise every other program that tries to use the information later
will need to check again. OTOH they probably need to check anyway since
an empty md5sums file also could be an error.
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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