Bug#651332: lintian: unhelpful message if changes file not present

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

tags 651332 + moreinfo
thanks


On 2011-12-08 23:00, Niels Thykier wrote:
> On 2011-12-08 22:57, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
>> Niels,
>> 	I think the following steps should reproduce it:
> 
>> 1.) Take a package and run lintian against it.
>> 2.) Then delete the package and but still run lintian against it.
> 
>> [...]
> 
> Sadly I still cannot reproduce it (from the above):
> 
> $ [...]
> 
> I assume you are not removing the file while lintian is running?
> 
> ~Niels
> 
> 

Hi,

So I still have not been able to reproduce the issue from the git
version of Lintian.  I suspect it has been fixed as a side-effect of
another change, but I am not any wiser on when/what/how it happened.

Admittedly I have not tried to reproducing it by removing the package(s)
while lintian is running.  However, I doubt that is what you are doing.
 I intend to close this shortly after the 2.5.5 upload, unless I am able
to produce it.

~Niels