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

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

2010/2/3 Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>:
>
> 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?
>

Yes, the package, symfony1.4 [1], ships an empty tiny_mce.js file as
data input for unit testing, you can check it at
/test/unit/helper/fixtures/tiny_mce.js of the source package. As you
can see it is a very special case, don't know if it is worth the
effort of making any changes.

Thanks,
Federico

[1] http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/symfony1.4/symfony1.4_1.4.1-1.dsc