Bug#759213: lintian: quilt-build-dep-but-no-series-file triggered even if debian/patches/series exists (but empty)

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

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On 2014-08-25 13:31, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.25
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Lintian Hackers,
> 
> for format 1.0 source packages which occassionally need patching, I
> prefer to keep quilt in the build-dependencies and
> debian/rules. I also keep an empty debian/patches/series file.
> 
> But lintian still claims quilt-build-dep-but-no-series-file despite it
> is surely not true that there is no series file.
> 
> So please suppress this warning if debian/patches/series is empty as
> this is a sign that this was done deliberately.
> 
> In case you think there still could be cases where an empty
> debian/patches/series file is not on purpose, feel free to add a
> separate, maybe pedantic-level warning about that.
> 
> TIA!
> 
> P.S.: Soon to be uploaded test case: t-prot 3.2-1
> 
> [...]

Hi Axel,

Thanks for your report.

Unfortunately, while I can reproduce the lintian warning with t-prof
3.3-1, said package does *not* contain a series file (in its diff.gz).
Accordingly, it looks like a true positive.

Furthermore more, there is (at first glance) nothing in the Lintian code
that tests the size of the file - only its presence.  I suspect you
suffer from a different problem that leads to the (empty) series file
being excluded from the source package.

~Niels