Bug#527187: lintian: please check for README.source when quilt etc. are used
Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.10
Severity: wishlist
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Hi lintian team,
Post policy 3.8.0, it would be good to check for README.source when quilt or
similar are used. quilt etc. usually have a requirement on how to modify the
source and it would be good to help people fixing bugs in packages that they
don't maintain via information in the README.source file.
Thanks,
Giridhar
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.19.1-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.46-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.26 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.00-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-6 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.47-1 Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3
ii libipc-run-perl 0.82-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.5-1 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-1 Text::Template perl module
ii man-db 2.5.5-1 on-line manual pager
- -- no debconf information
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