Bug#576992: Please report shipping /usr/share/info/dir.gz as major error
Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi> writes:
> Apparently some buggy buildsystems cause packages to accidentally
> ship /usr/share/info/dir.gz. For ugly details see:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=576620
> Lintian could report this as error, as the file should be a generated file
> and no package should ship it.
Lintian already does. Is it not working? Could you give an example of a
package for which the existing Lintian tag isn't issued?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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