Bug#892967: lintian: considers .rtf to be a text file, causing false positives

To: 892967@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Subject: Bug#892967: lintian: considers .rtf to be a text file, causing false positives
From: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 02:40:01 +0000
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Reply-to: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>, 892967@bugs.debian.org
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tags 892967 + pending
thanks

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So, turns out we can actually fix / "parse" .rtf files quite easily:

  https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=9dd5cd5f7484f30026d1f63e362e13903a678ac1

.. so no need to ignore them just yet. :)


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