[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.1.3-49-g4e913bc

["Russ Allbery" <rra@debian.org>]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 0530d99497fc6261bfb153d405b4862b39e0d60b
Author: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Dec 30 22:33:10 2008 -0800

    Improve the description for patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff
    
    * checks/patch-systems.desc:
      + [RA] Improve the patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff long
        description.  (Closes: #496516)

diff --git a/checks/patch-systems.desc b/checks/patch-systems.desc
index c5872e2..cee7c93 100644
--- a/checks/patch-systems.desc
+++ b/checks/patch-systems.desc
@@ -93,8 +93,13 @@ Info: A patch stored in debian/patches/ should never modify files
 Tag: patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff
 Severity: minor
 Certainty: certain
-Info: The package uses a patch-system, but the Debian diff.gz contains changes
- made on files without being separated out in a patch.
+Info: The package uses a patch system, but the Debian diff.gz contains
+ changes to files or creation of additional files outside of the
+ <tt>debian</tt> directory.  This often indicates accidental changes that
+ weren't meant to be in the package or changes that were supposed to be
+ separated out into a patch.  The package will also more easily support
+ possible future source package formats if all changes outside the
+ <tt>debian</tt> directory are stored as patches.
 
 Tag: more-than-one-patch-system
 Severity: minor
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 674aebe..a76a263 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ lintian (2.1.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     + [RA] Keep the hash of files and symlinks local to each package,
       reducing memory consumption and false negatives for archive-wide
       runs.
+  * checks/patch-systems.desc:
+    + [RA] Improve the patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff long
+      description.  (Closes: #496516)
   * checks/rules{,.desc}:
     + [RA] Remove desktop-file-but-no-dh_desktop-call.  The only action of
       dh_desktop is now checked by desktop-mimetype-without-update-call;

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