Re: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:53:07AM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 05:10:36PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > That's what the "next PACKAGE;" achieves.
> > Alternatively, in such a case, set a variable $empty_package = 1 and
> > then test the value of this variable around the checks block (lines
> > 1127--1221). There may be some other things which should be blocked
> > out, but this does not seem intrinsically difficult.
>
> It's slightly more difficult than that, because you do want to keep
> the warnings about the control file and other metadata.
Oh, hadn't thought of that. You are right.
Julian
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