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Bug#797466: lintian: Correct grammar of dir-or-file-in-build-tree long description



On 2015-08-30 23:14, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Hi Chris!
> 
> * Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>, 2015-08-30, 22:45:
>> -Info: Your package install file in our build tree.
>> +Info: Your package installed a file in our build tree.
> 
> That's an improvement, but I still don't understand what it's trying to
> tell me. I mean, whose build tree?!
> 
> I would have no idea what this tag is about if I didn't look at the
> code. It triggers when the package include files in
> /var/cache/pbuilder/build/ or /var/lib/sbuild/ or /var/lib/buildd/.
> 
> But... how could it even happen that you ship stuff in any of these
> directories by accident? This doesn't seem plausible to me.
> 

I am afraid it is very plausible.  Between May 18th 2013 and Sep 21.
2013 we had instances of this tag on lintian.d.o.  I presume we had
instances even earlier and lintian simply could not detect them before then.

Thanks,
~Niels



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