RE: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > lintian complains about empty packages not having a copyright file. I
> > think it should silently accept empty packages (Severity set to normal
> > because it might actually stop packages from being installed).
> And how am I to tell a package that is empty on purpose from one created by
> accident? What constitutes empty?
I think empty packages on purpose could be recognized by looking at
whether another package from the same source conflicted with them.
An empty package is one where data.tar.gz contains only "./".
Simon
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