Bug#177523: debian-policy: mom says: no wasteful trailing whitespace in logfiles, etc.
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.7.0
Severity: wishlist
i was told to send this
From: Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr>
Subject: Re: iptables: wasteful blanks added to syslog lines
To: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 07:18:11AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Lintian fellows: Suggest that maintainers check that their programs
> dont put wasteful blanks or ^M's in logfiles.
> I found lots with emacs' (setq-default show-trailing-whitespace t)
Lintian cannot check for this. Instead, you can file a wishlist bug on
debian-policy so that it gets noted in the Policy.
one example check is grep \ $ /var/log/syslog ...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.19-k7 #1 Sun Oct 6 20:29:56 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5
Versions of packages debian-policy depends on:
ii coreutils [fileutils] 4.5.2-1 The GNU core utilities
ii fileutils 4.5.2-1 GNU file management utilities
-- no debconf information
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