Re: How to get lintian to shut up?

[Martin Schulze <joey@kuolema.Infodrom.North.DE>]

On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 02:59:17PM -0700, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> I am packaging imaptool using deb helper scripts.  I am able to generate the
> package.  However, lintian complains like so -
> 
> E: imaptool: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file e
> E: imaptool: file-missing-in-md5sums usr/doc/imaptool/README.debian
> E: imaptool: file-missing-in-md5sums usr/doc/imaptool/changelog.Debian.gz
> E: imaptool: file-missing-in-md5sums usr/doc/imaptool/copyright
> E: imaptool: file-missing-in-md5sums usr/X11R6/man/man1/imaptool.1x.gz
> E: imaptool: file-missing-in-md5sums usr/doc/imaptool/buildinfo.Debian
> E: imaptool: file-missing-in-md5sums usr/X11R6/bin/imaptool
> 
> What do these errors mean?  How can I get lintian to shut up?  Why are the
> files missing in the md5sum?

Did you try to use a newer version of your deb helper packages?
I remember that old version generated abandoned md5sum files, I'm
not sure if they generated too few entries though.

Regards,

	Joey

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