Bug#993662: lintian: Please warn for source file that have This file was autogenerated or DO NOT EDIT BY HAND

["Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 993662 - patch
thanks

Hi Bastien,

> Doing some code review on mozilla I found this interesting file
> https://sources.debian.org/src/firefox-
> esr/78.13.0esr-1/js/src/frontend/BinASTEnum.h/?hl=1#L1
>
> // This file was autogenerated by binjs_generate_spidermonkey,
> // please DO NOT EDIT BY HAND.

Interesting idea. But files with contents such as these aren't a
problem in themselves. A problem only arises, at least from an
ftpmaster point of view, when there isn't the corresponding, say,
binjs_generate_spidermonkey script. (Imagine a long debate about
"corresponding source code" here; better held elsewhere.)

So, unless I'm missing something, I don't think this is something
Lintian should warn about, at any severity level.

> Tags: patch

(I assume this was a mistake, rather than you missing an attachment?
Feel free to revert if necessary.)


Regards,

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