Bug#888304: lintian: False-positive brace-expansion-in-debhelper-config-file

[Niels Thykier]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.70
Severity: minor

Hi,

lintian is flagging the following file with a brace expansion:

"""
usr/lib/lightning 
usr/lib/thunderbird/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}
"""
(Source: 
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-mozilla/icedove.git/tree/debian/lightning.links)

However, a brace expansion requires a comma between the braces.  E.g. in bash:

"""
  $ echo {a,b}  ; echo {ab}
  a b
  {ab}
"""

I have confirmed this holds for debhelper as well (mind the regression
#888251; affects 10.6 until the next release).

Thanks,
~Niels