Bug#947264: lintian: overly generic file name: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/examples/README.txt
On 24/12/2019 00.32, Felix Lechner wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 1:00 PM Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> please add /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/examples/README.txt (and
>> possible variants thereof
>>
>> /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/examples/[^/]* should be disallowed
>> (but /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/examples/.*/[^/]* should be OK).
>
> Should a README.txt not cover all examples, or should the file simply
> have another name?
A package built from src:python3.x or src:python3-defaults might ship
such a file, but no ordinary python3-$MODULE package. (Maybe
python3-examples could.)
Maybe ask the python maintainers whether
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/examples/ is a "namespace invasion".
>> in case lintian uses some wildcards for this
>> check) to the list of overly generic file names.
>
> Please forgive me. Lintian has a lot of tags. Would you please point
> us in the right direction?
>
> $ find tags/ -name '*generic*'
> tags/p/python-module-has-overly-generic-name.desc
That is the one I meant, but maybe it is not the best for "namespace
invasion".
Andreas
PS: the buggy packages now have #947265, #947266
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