Bug#879809: lintian: warn about empty fields in binary package control files

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 879809 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi,

> When the binary package control file is generated by the package build
> process, it could mistakenly generate a field that is empty.
> 
> I have not seen any specific instances of this yet though.

Tagging "moreinfo" until then :)

I suspect we might also need to workaround potential false positives
where various substvars are (correctly) empty and result in legitimately
empty fields.


Best wishes,

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