Hi,
Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> Lintian randomly reports trailing white space in debian/changelog.
> It would be desirable for debhelper to parse the file and strip
> traling white space whnever found.
No. debhelper does not edit files which are checked by that check
(namely debian/changelog, debian/control and debian/rules).
Out of those, it could fix the debian/changelog file in the resulting
binary as it fiddles around with it already anyways. But it cannot fix
it in the source package. That's the maintainer's work.
Additionally that lintian check runs against the source package, not
the binary packages. So fixing it in the binary package via debhelper
won't make that emitted tag going away.
P.S.: If you're an Emacs user, just run "M-x wh-cl" when editing
debian/changelog and you're done.
Regards, Axel
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