Your message dated Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:01:31 +0100 with message-id <20081128110131.GN6630@mail-vs.djpig.de> and subject line Re: Bug#504264: lintian: warn on empty files passed to dh_installdocs or in .deb has caused the Debian Bug report #504264, regarding lintian: warn on empty files passed to dh_installdocs or in .deb to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 504264: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504264 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems
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- Subject: lintian: warn on empty files passed to dh_installdocs or in .deb
- From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
- Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:18:44 +0900
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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. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWiseAttachment: signature.asc
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- To: 504264-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#504264: lintian: warn on empty files passed to dh_installdocs or in .deb
- From: Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
- Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:01:31 +0100
- Message-id: <20081128110131.GN6630@mail-vs.djpig.de>
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On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 03:13:46PM +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 21:22 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > 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? > > Ah. I was reviewing an RFS, but only ran lintian on the source package: > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/plotmm/plotmm_0.1.2-1.dsc > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2008/11/msg00014.html I don't think this issue is worth a duplication for source packages. So closing this bug. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> www: http://www.djpig.de/
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