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Bug#294927: marked as done ([checks/cruft] warn of .orig.tar.gz containing a debian directory)

Your message dated Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:32:56 -0800
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and subject line Re: Bug#294927: [checks/cruft] warn of .orig.tar.gz containing a debian directory
has caused the Debian Bug report #294927,
regarding [checks/cruft] warn of .orig.tar.gz containing a debian directory
to be marked as done.

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Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.8
Severity: wishlist

.orig.tar.gz's containing a debian subdir is usually a PITA, and it's so
distribution-secific it doesn't belong in any upstream's tarball anyway.

--Jeroen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                   2.15-5        The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat                   1.35-1        produces graph of changes introduc
ii  file                       4.12-1        Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                    0.14.1-7      GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian            0.30+20040213 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  man-db                     2.4.2-19      The on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-perl]  5.8.4-5       Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

-- no debconf information

-- 
Jeroen van Wolffelaar
jeroen@wolffelaar.nl
http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

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This has been discussed a lot recently, and while there are various
arguments on both sides, I think it's fair to say that there's no project
consensus that upstream should not include a debian directory.  See recent
blog posts from Joey Hess, for instance.  debhelper supports working
around any issues from upstream shipping a debian directory, and the 3.0
source format takes the alternative approach of just removing the upstream
debian directory entirely.

I think Lintian issuing a tag on this would go too far on the side of
taking a stand on an issue of ongoing controversy, and judging from the
discussion in the bug log, it's been a controversy for a long time.  I'm
therefore going to go ahead and close the bug, since I don't think the
situation is likely to change substantially.

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

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