reopen 464837 retitle 464837 [checks/cruft] warn about Mercurial files thanks
Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> writes: > Holger Levsen wrote: >> Sadly I don't know mercurial at all, so I cannot give you that information. > File Purpose Should Lintian warn? > ============================================================================ > > .htignore Parallel to .gitignore; regexes Yes, for the same reasons > of files hg ignores. we warn for .gitignore. We don't warn about .gitignore (or .cvsignore or .bzrignore) because it makes sense to ship those files in the source package. (I'm an example of an upstream maintainer who thinks that including those files in distributions is better than removing them.) I removed those tags a while back (Lintian 1.23.24). > .hgtags Stores hashes of tagged commits Yes, as this data isn't > in a Mercurial repo. useful if we don't have > the repo. Excellent, thanks. I'll add a warning about this one. > .hg_archival.txt Created by `hg archive`; added No, seems to be common > to the created tarball so that and might be useful for > you can determine exactly which maintainers. Some build > commit corresponds to the scripts might use it to > tarball. include in --version > output, for example. > Hope this helps. Yes, very much! Thank you! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
