Bug#881389: lintian: Incomplete solution to whitespace errors in file-contains-trailing-whitespace

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

On Sat, 2017-11-11 at 21:21:10 +1100, Stuart Prescott wrote:
> 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 don't think keeping trailing tabs is good practice, it's just that
it's the only way to avoid #698789, for example. :/

(And I do that, but I'd rather stop if vim let me! :)

Thanks,
Guillem