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Bug#471263: marked as done ([checks/patch-systems] suppress patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff for generated files)

Your message dated Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:08:59 +0200
with message-id <4E4FB1EB.3040806@thykier.net>
and subject line Re: [checks/patch-systems] suppress patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff for generated files
has caused the Debian Bug report #471263,
regarding [checks/patch-systems] suppress patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff for generated files
to be marked as done.

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Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.46
Severity: wishlist

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Please consider docbook-defguide and docbook-xml/docbook-simple as
examples. In these packages I created a build-system (docbook-defguide)
or catalogs (docbook-xml, docbook-simple). Because I use a patch system
to change upstream sources, lintian complains about the fact, that I do
not create these files by patch.

It simply doesn't make sense to create these files by patch. lintian
should only warn, if changes are really changes to an existing file, but
not if "change" means, that a file has been created.

Would you agree to this? Is it possible to exclude created files from
this warning? I would further vote for excluding
changes.{sub,guess,rpath} and maybe even Makefiles and/or configure
scripts from this test. However, this is hust an optional suggestion.

Regards, Daniel


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Debian Release: lenny/sid
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  APT policy: (850, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing'), (550, 'stable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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ii  dpkg-dev            1.14.16.6            package building tools for Debian
ii  file                4.23-2               Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext             0.17-2               GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian     0.35.0+20060710.1    Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2              parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  liburi-perl         1.35.dfsg.1-1        Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  man-db              2.5.1-3              on-line manual pager
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lintian recommends no packages.

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Hi,

This bug has been marked wontfix for over 3 years and no comments have
appeared since then.  Therefore I am closing it to clean up the bug tracker.

For this particular bug, I believe dpkg-source has better support for
excluding some files from the resulting diff (or the auto-generated
patch), which should cover common cases for this issue.

~Niels

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