Re: lintian -i file.changes error

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

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:09:51PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> >  W: ktouch: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory 
> > usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ktouch/.anchors
> >  N:
> >  N:   package contains a file which is empty
> >  N:
> 
> Well, this ought to be obvious: is the file empty?  :-)
> 
> Actually, there is a bug in lintian that gives this warning erroneously
> if .anchors is a HARD LINK, so also check that.  

And note that hard links are forbidden by policy.

   Julian

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