Bug#513544: lintian: pedantic 'no-upstream-changelog' should check if upsteam changelog is not empty
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 01:31, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> writes:
>> Hello,
>> since dh_installchangelog skips empty upsteam changelog files, so the
>> pedantic tag should be not shown in that situation.
>
> I don't see any good way for Lintian to do that. It's checking the binary
> package to see if an upstream changelog was installed and doesn't know
> what was in the source package (and a source package check wouldn't know
> whether an upstream changelog was being installed or not).
Not a problem, feel free to close or wontfix :)
I think situation where the source package is at hand (like
lintian-ing the .changes file) so that a empty file check can be
performed. But I even understand that this could not fit the lintian
check architecture.
Cheers,
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Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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