Bug#881389: lintian: Incomplete solution to whitespace errors in file-contains-trailing-whitespace
Hi Chris,
> > However, that only removes trailing spaces, while trailing tabs will also
> > trigger the warning
>
> … but not in debian/rules as leaving trailing tabs is quite common,
> hence the safer and less-exhaustive sed.
I think I missed something. Why is it good to keep trailing tabs in a
Makefile?
> I've updated the description to match, which — I think! — should please both
> of us:
>
> https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=45632b0eee896
> 7eb155fddd093c7761c12bc1980
it probably shouldn't say debian/control in the sample command but otherwise,
that at least tells the maintainer how to fix the warning rather than giving
an instruction that does not.
cheers
Stuart
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