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

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Federico Gimenez Nieto <fgimenez@coit.es> writes:

> 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.

Selfishly, I would rather not since it makes writing a test suite more
annoying.  Could you explain more about why your package needs to include
empty files with the same name as a well-known Javascript library?

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