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Bug#464837: marked as done ([checks/cruft] warn about Mercurial files in upstream source)

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.

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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,
	Holger

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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.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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