On Wednesday 25 February 2009 09:10:11 Michael Tautschnig wrote: Hi,
> Is there anything really wrong with diagnostics (that is, how did you get > to report this)? I had prepared a locally modified package for my own testing purposes only, so I stumbled across its empty diff.gz. It took me some minutes to realize that most probably everything is in place proper until I diff it against the upstream tarball. > In fact, the empty diff was expected Expected by whom: you, me as a package user, or by the readers of missing README.source ;-) > as I've got access to > upstream's source repository and keep the changes there. You can still have non-empty diff.gz and a tarball without debian directory. > I might in fact > add a lintian override later on. I'll close the bug report with such an > upload if nothing else is wrong. IMO a clearly identified upstream tarball without debian/ and properly populated diff.gz would match the principle of least surprise better, but you are free to ignore it as well. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
