Bug#534940: lintian: inconsistent reporting of affected files
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On 2011-01-18 03:23, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
>
>> I guess I am biting the bullet now. It turns out that with the
>> pre-sorting stuff, some of the checks (e.g. checks/binaries) now modify
>> the list when they add their "./" prefix, causing other checks (e.g.
>> checks/shared-libs) to fail.
>
>> I have made the following patches on the infra-513663 branch and I
>> intend to apply them on the master branch as well. The patches will
>> remove ./ and / prefixes on file names in some of the checks. If I
>> missed any checks let me know.
>> I chose the "\.?/"-less prefix for two reasons; I believed most of our
>> checks does not use it (particularly checks/files, which is rather huge)
>> and secondly because Lintian::Collect tends to return the file names
>> without this prefix.
>
> Thank you for doing this! I'm in favor, and had just been holding off due
> to the amount of work involved.
>
> We will probably want to bump the minor version for this change, since it
> will break a few existing overrides that will need the obvious updates.
>
Hey,
I found out that ocaml and menu-format also suffered from this, so I
added those. All of it has been pushed to the infra branch (except the
version bump, I figured we should wait until we apply the changes to the
master branch)
~Niels
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