Re: E: foo source: debian-files-list-in-source

[Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@debian.org>]

This one time, at band camp, Sebastian Muszynski wrote:
>Hi folks, 
>
>if i run lintian i get following error: 
>E: foo source: debian-files-list-in-source
>
>The main cause of the error is that dpkg-source ignores
>the deletion of the file "debian/files". So the source contains
>the file against patching the orig-source furthermore. 
>
>What can I do? Does exist any option that diff doesn´t ignore deleted files?

If you make debian/rules clean remove "files", then it won't matter that
it's in the upstream source -- then you can make a lintian override for that
error.

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