Re: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:16:59PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> 
> On 19-Jun-2001 Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 06:24:52PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> >> And how am I to tell a package that is empty on purpose from one created by
> >> accident?  What constitutes empty?
> > 
> > Maybe have a lintian warning about an empty package, but no error
> > messages.
> > 
> 
> while not opposed to this, it is definately non-trivial to implement, sorry all.

Somewhere around line 1100 of /usr/bin/lintian (not sure exactly
where), you could essentially have the following code:

  {
     local $/;
     open FILELIST, "$base/index";
     my $filelist = <FILELIST>;
     if ($filelist eq "./\n") {
        print "W: no files in binary package $pkg\n";
        next PACKAGE;
     }
  }

   Julian

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