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Bug#1010700: lintian: Strange report of superfluous-file-pattern



Hello Jakub,
On Sat, May 07, 2022 at 09:23:02PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>, 2022-05-07, 18:32:
> > Lintian claims:
> > W: goobox source: superfluous-file-pattern po/uk.po [debian/copyright:461]
> > 
> > However:
> > file po/uk.po
> > po/uk.po: GNU gettext message catalogue, Unicode text, UTF-8 text
> > 
> > grep uk.po debian/copyright
> > Files: po/uk.po
> > 
> > If lots of other po files which are accepted, why is po/uk.po any
> > different?
> 
> I think Lintian is confused because this file was added by a patch. It
> doesn't exist in .orig.tar.

Thanks. This could explain it, currently it is the only file added via
a patch.

Maybe you can add a sentence stating that this message can have some
false positives? (I saw this in other lintian warnings).

Greetings

         Helge

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