Bug#960970: lintian: confusing error message on missing file

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Subject: Bug#960970: lintian: confusing error message on missing file
From: Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 23:32:32 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 158983755269.27982.15601615968135904501.reportbug@zam581.zam.kfa-juelich.de>
Reply-to: Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>, 960970@bugs.debian.org

Package: lintian
Version: 2.74.0
Severity: minor

$ lintian primus-vk_1.4-2_amd64.changes
bad package file name primus-vk_1.4-2_amd64.changes (neither .deb, .udeb, .ddeb, .changes, .dsc or .buildinfo file)

Hmm, it's a .changes file. But it wasn't in the current directory ...


Andreas

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