Your message dated Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:26:16 -0800 with message-id <87hc46zcwn.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> and subject line Re: Bug#464837: should warn about merciurial files has caused the Debian Bug report #464837, regarding [checks/cruft] warn about Mercurial files in upstream source 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.) -- 464837: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464837 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems
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- Subject: should warn about merciurial files
- From: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
- Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 10:54:12 +0100
- Message-id: <200802091054.13605.holger@layer-acht.org>
package: lintian version: 1.23.44 Hi, lintian doesnt warn about left over mercurial files in the source package, like it does with svn or cvs files. The following files remained unnoticed in my source package: .hg_archival.txt | 2 .hgignore | 29 .hgtags | 10 regards, HolgerAttachment: pgpJKRyNm9iac.pgp
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- To: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
- Cc: 464837-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#464837: should warn about merciurial files
- From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:26:16 -0800
- Message-id: <87hc46zcwn.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
- In-reply-to: <87fxw08xuv.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (Russ Allbery's message of "Sun\, 10 Feb 2008 10\:34\:00 -0800")
- References: <200802091054.13605.holger@layer-acht.org> <87fxw08xuv.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes: > I'm not sure about .hg_archival.txt and .hgtags, though. We do > currently warn about arch inventory files, so if this is a similar case, > I can see adding a similar warning about them. But I'm hesitant to do > so without a clearer understanding of what the files are for and how > someone would normally avoid including them in the package. > > Note that dpkg-source does not currently filter out any of these files > when the -i option is used, only the .hg metadata directory, so the > instructions for how to avoid them in diffs used for other files in the > source package wouldn't be accurate. I didn't see a reply to the above comment (although there was some other further discussion about restructuring these patterns in Lintian). In the absence of further information on this, I'm going to assume that Lintian's current behavior here is okay and close this bug. If you have any more information about what these files are for and are sure that they should be omitted, please feel free to reopen. -- Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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