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Bug#540164: marked as done (lintian: Check 'No description' in debian/patches/*.dpatch)

Your message dated Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:20:04 -0700
with message-id <87vdjj8l7v.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
and subject line Re: Bug#540164: lintian: Check 'No description' in debian/patches/*.dpatch
has caused the Debian Bug report #540164,
regarding lintian: Check 'No description' in debian/patches/*.dpatch
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.

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Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.13
Severity: wishlist


An example:

    #! /bin/sh /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch-run
    ## config-dir-change.patch.dpatch by Foo Bar <foo@example.com>
    ##
    ## All lines beginning with `## DP:' are a description of the patch.
    ## DP: No description.

    @DPATCH@

SUGGESTION

Please add a (warning?) check for "empty" DP: descriptions like this.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils              2.19.51.20090723-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat              1.47-1             produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev              1.15.3.1           Debian package development tools
ii  file                  5.03-1             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  libapt-pkg-perl       0.1.23             Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libipc-run-perl       0.84-1             Perl module for running processes
ii  libparse-debianchange 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                2.5.5-3            on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.10.0-24          Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch            <none>     (no description available)
pn  libtext-template-perl         <none>     (no description available)
ii  man-db                        2.5.5-3    on-line manual pager

-- no debconf information

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The existing Lintian test should already be handling this.  Since there
was no reply to Adam's response, I assume that it was just missed and am
closing the bug accordingly.

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

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