Bug#503695: lintian: Add support for checking empty DP: ""
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 06:30:37PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 18:32 +0200, jaalto wrote:
> > Given following debian/patches/10_example.dpatch:
> >
> > ## All lines beginning with `## DP:' are a description of the patch.
> > ## DP: ""
> >
> > Please add report "W: "for empty patch description. (likewise for DP: " ")
>
> The tag already exists - dpatch-missing-description. It currently
> assumes that any comment starting "DP:" means that a description has
> been provided (so long as the comment does not contain "no
> description").
>
> I can't see any reason why the check shouldn't be extended to require a
> dpatch comment line containing at least one non-space character and will
> do so unless someone can suggest a good reason.
Sounds reasonable to me.
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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