Package: debhelper
Version: 5.0.22
Severity: wishlist

Packages built with autotools may left lying around the default templates, like:

    -rw-r--r-- 1  501  501 183935 2004-12-19 23:44 ltmain.sh
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  13971 2006-02-13 19:52 Makefile
    -rw-r--r-- 1  501  501    587 2005-01-07 23:31 Makefile.am
    -rw-r--r-- 1  501  501  13725 2005-01-11 21:40 Makefile.in
    -rwxr-xr-x 1  501  501   6480 2003-09-27 09:57 missing
    -rwxr-xr-x 1  501  501    722 2003-09-27 09:57 mkinstalldirs
>   -rw-r--r-- 1  501  501      0 2004-06-14 16:28 NEWS
    drwxrwxrwx 2  501  501    264 2006-02-13 19:52 po
>   -rw-r--r-- 1  501  501      0 2004-06-14 16:28 README
    drwxrwxrwx 3  501  501    784 2006-02-13 19:53 src
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     10 2006-02-13 19:52 stamp-h
    -rw-r--r-- 1  501  501     10 2005-01-11 21:41 stamp-h.in
>   -rw-r--r-- 1  501  501      0 2005-01-07 23:31 TODO

It would be nice if dh_installdocs could either

o   automatically skip zero-legth files (and issue a warning)
o   or if called with optiont --exclude-empty it would skip them silently


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  binutils             2.16.1cvs20060117-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  coreutils [fileutils 5.93-5              The GNU core utilities
ii  debconf-utils        1.4.70              debconf utilities
ii  dpkg-dev             1.13.13             package building tools for Debian
ii  file                 4.15-2              Determines file type using "magic"
ii  html2text            1.3.2a-3            An advanced HTML to text converter
ii  perl                 5.8.8-2             Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  po-debconf           0.9.2               manage translated Debconf template

debhelper recommends no packages.

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