Bug#471263: [patch-systems]: please no patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff for generated files
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.46
Severity: wishlist
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Please consider docbook-defguide and docbook-xml/docbook-simple as
examples. In these packages I created a build-system (docbook-defguide)
or catalogs (docbook-xml, docbook-simple). Because I use a patch system
to change upstream sources, lintian complains about the fact, that I do
not create these files by patch.
It simply doesn't make sense to create these files by patch. lintian
should only warn, if changes are really changes to an existing file, but
not if "change" means, that a file has been created.
Would you agree to this? Is it possible to exclude created files from
this warning? I would further vote for excluding
changes.{sub,guess,rpath} and maybe even Makefiles and/or configure
scripts from this test. However, this is hust an optional suggestion.
Regards, Daniel
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (850, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing'), (550, 'stable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.16.6 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.23-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.1-3 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
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