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Bug#946126: lintian: Please complain about debian/NEWS.Debian



Hi Vincent,

On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 6:33 PM Vincent McIntyre <vmcintyr@atnf.csiro.au> wrote:
>
> The reason for this appears to be longstanding, see bug 429510.
>
> This issue may go away with a later debhelper compatibility level
> but since it's been around since 2007, perhaps it's worth a lintian rule.
>
> Perhaps lintian could warn about this?

While debhelper should probably provide such a warning, Lintian would
be happy to help out for the time being.

> There may already be a similar check for debian/[README|TODO].Debian

Which tag are you referring to, please?

Kind regards
Felix Lechner


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