On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 11:36:37PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2019-11-14, Chris Lamb wrote: > >> It would be nice if lintian checked for the presence of a .buildinfo > >> file when processing a .changes file. > > > > I'm obviously sold on the idea of .buildinfo files but what error or > > mistake might such a missing file imply on behalf of the developer? > > I'm not sure it's a mistake, per se, but suggests that they're using > very old tooling to build packages, or home-grown tooling, both of which > might have various bugs... >...
Or passing the --buildinfo-option=-O/tmp/dpkgisstupid option to dpkg-buildpackage because buildinfo files don't make sense for source-only uploads. cu Adrian
