Bug#608866: lintian: False positive: extra-license-file usr/games/rott-sitelicense
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On 2011-01-04 19:07, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
>
>> Excluding all binaries and known scripts might be a good idea, but I
>> have not deployed that change. Perhaps some of the other Lintian
>> maintainers can comment on that idea.
>
> Yeah, that seems like a reasonable idea to me. If the license file is a
> script or binary (or, really, even if it's just executable, since we
> already diagnose executable text files elsewhere), there's something weird
> enough going on that Lintian can't really warn.
>
Okay, I have made Lintian ignore all executable files now. I took the
opportunity to simplify the check, since we no longer have to check for
bin-directories and usr/games (since files there must be executable and
we have a separate check for that).
~Niels
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