Bug#504264: lintian: warn on empty files passed to dh_installdocs or in .deb
Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.0.0
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Please warn about empty or whitespace-only files being listed in
> debian/*docs when dh_installdocs is being used, or on the command-line
> to the dh_installdocs command in debian/rules. Shipping useless files
> in .debs should be discouraged. Please also warn on empty files
> in /usr/share/doc.
lintian already warns about empty files in the package in general, which
would seem to cover this. Do you have a specific example that we can look
at where this didn't work?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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