Bug#904420: lintian: Warn about empty fields in source package control files
Hi David,
> >> Vcs-Browser: has only whitespace, and Vcs-Git: is empty
[..]
> > (These are all pedantic tags; are you perhaps not running at that
> > level?)
> >
> I am not running at pedantic level. For me these errors deserve at least
> a warning.
So, I probably just added the tag at an artificially lower severity to
avoid tedious pushback and to ensure it was working properly, rather
than it being a reflection of my personal opinion.
I can't think of any useful reason except for the case where generating
an empty field via some kind of debian/control.in-like mechanism is
considered perfectly "valid" for that source package's complicated
arrangements.
Naturally, this could also be indicative of a problem with the
packaging. Very happy to entertain a request to raising the severity
though; fancy retitling the bug to match?
Regards,
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