Package: lintian Version: 2.104.0 Severity: wishlist The debmake package is an alternative to dh_make. The debmake package contains a number of packaging templates in the /usr/share/debmake/ directory that debmake uses when generating initial packaging, which folks then customise for their use. There are a number of packages where the maintainer hasn't bothered to remove unnecessary comments that the comments in the debmake templates themselves also suggest removing. https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=You+must+remove+unused+comment+lines+for+the+released+package.&literal=1 I think it would be good if lintian could detect situations where comments from the debmake templates have not been removed. I think the best way to implement this would be for lintian to grow a script that is run at lintian release time and gathers all the comments from the debmake templates into a set of files containing comments that should be removed, filters out some that are reasonable to keep (such as #export DH_VERBOSE=1) and then stores those in the lintian git repository, separated out into the types of files each comment occurs in. Then the lintian check for this issue can detect all of the unnecessary debmake comments. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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