Bug#605999: lintian: support for format 3.0 (git) source packages
On 2013-07-22 14:02, Niels Thykier wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> Feel free to submit a patch for this support and we can review it.
> At the moment, it is my belief that 3.0 (git) is not widely accepted
> and I am not convinced this is about to change anytime soon. Therefore,
> I have little interest in spending time on it for now.
>
> ~Niels
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>
As life would have it, Lintian can now process "3.0 (git)" and have been
apparently able to do so since 2.5.11. This is currently an artefact of
another change and not a deliberate choice to support "3.0 (git)" packages.
Therefore, there are still some "quirks" (like a warning for the
source containing a ".git" directory).
If you are (still?) interested in 3.0 (git) support then please consider
providing patches for:
* Removing the false-positive for the .git dir in the source[1].
* A test case ensuring that 3.0 (git) support does not suffer
regressions.
~Niels
[1] dpkg-source creates the .git during unpack and Lintian "indexes" the
unpacked source. Either checks/cruft.pm needs to know about this special
case, or collection/index, should ignore the .git dir for 3.0 (git)
source packages. My personally preference would be updating
checks/cruft.pm.
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