Bug#568242: lintian: please add an option to ignore empty files

[Federico Gimenez Nieto <fgimenez@coit.es>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.3.3
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

For some tags, like embedded-javascript-library, lintian only checks 
the existence of files with a certain name, not taking into account
if the content matches the file name or even if there is content at all.
It would be nice to instruct lintian to ignore empty files, regardless 
of the file name.

Thanks,
Federico

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils               2.20-5            The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat               1.47-1            produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev               1.15.5.6          Debian package development tools
ii  file                   5.04-1            Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                0.17-8            GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian        0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libapt-pkg-perl        0.1.24            Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1            Perl module that automatically gen
ii  libipc-run-perl        0.84-1            Perl module for running processes
ii  libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2           parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-perl       1.2000-1          collection of modules to manipulat
ii  liburi-perl            1.52-1            module to manipulate and access UR
ii  locales                2.10.2-5          Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii  man-db                 2.5.6-5           on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-9          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                        2.5.6-5    on-line manual pager

-- no debconf information