Re: Lintian Warnings and Modifying Upstream Source

[Cameron Dale <camrdale@gmail.com>]

On 1/21/06, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> The first four you're probably going to have to just live with unless
> upstream repackages their source better.  (The first two aren't even
> really problems in my opinion; the I: level of lintian output is just
> informational and isn't something you should really worry about.)  In
> order to get rid of those messages, you'd have to repackage the upstream
> source, and removing CVS directories isn't a good enough reason to
> repackage the upstream source.

Thanks, that's the answer I was looking for. I guess I'll have to live
with the pristine source warnings and continue to ask upstream to
remove the files.

Cameron Dale